Arterial stiffness as a risk factor for clinical hypertension

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 97-105

  Safar, Michel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; DIHYDRALAZINE; DIURETIC AGENT; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL; PROPRANOLOL;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE WAVE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ANIMAL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 85040839114     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.155     Document Type: Review

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