Ankle blood pressure as a predictor of total and cardiovascular mortality

BACKGROUND: The ankle blood pressure is commonly used as a ratio to the brachial blood pressure, called ankle-brachial index (ABI). Very few studies have considered the independent value of the ankle blood pressure without indexing it to the brachial blood pressure. We examined the value of ankle bl...

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Autores principales: Hietanen, Heikki, Pääkkönen, Rauni, Salomaa, Veikko
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18267039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-8-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18267039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-8-3

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