Assessment of Blood Pressure in Children: It's All in the Details

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 772-773

  Flynn, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; OSCILLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PNEUMATIC CUFF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPHYGMOMANOMETER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS;

EID: 84886947922     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12192     Document Type: Note

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