Skinfold Thickness as a Predictor of Arterial Stiffness: Obesity and Fatness Linked to Higher Stiffness Measurements in Hypertensive Patients

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 459-464

  Selcuk, Ali ^a   Bulucu, Fatih ^a   Kalafat, Firdevs ^a   Cakar, Mustafa ^a   Demirbas, Seref ^a   Karaman, Murat ^a   Ay, Seyid Ahmet ^a   Saglam, Kenan ^a   Balta, Sevket ^a   Demirkol, Sait ^a   Arslan, Erol ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anthropometric measurements; Arterial stiffness; Augmentation index; Body mass index; Central aortic pressure; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY MASS; CENTRAL AORTIC PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84884574751     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: 15256006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641963.2012.746357     Document Type: Article

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