Cardiovascular Risk Stratification and Blood Pressure Variability on Ambulatory and Home Blood Pressure Measurement

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Boggia, José ^a,g   Asayama, Kei ^b   Li, Yan ^c   Hansen, Tine Willum ^d   Mena, Luis ^e   Schutte, Rudolph ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^e Master Program in Applied Sciences   (Mexico)

^f NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^g HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Blood pressure monitoring; Blood pressure variability; Epidemiology; Hypertension; Population science

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84939893388     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-014-0470-8     Document Type: Review

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