The effect of clothes on sphygmomanometric and oscillometric blood pressure measurement

Blood Pressure

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 279-282

  Liebl, Max E ^a   Holzgreve, Heinrich ^a   Schulz, Mathias ^a   Crispin, Alexander ^a   Bogner, Johannes R ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Clothes; Oscillometry; Sphygmomanometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOTHING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETER; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS;

EID: 9244255780     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050410016465     Document Type: Article

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