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Phenomenon of declining blood pressure in elderly - high systolic levels are undervalued with Korotkoff method

BACKGROUND: Systolic blood pressure (SBP) decline has been reported in octogenarians. The aim was to study if it could be observed while measuring SBP with two methods: Korotkoff (K-BP) and Strain-Gauge-Finger-Pletysmography (SG-BP), and which of them were more reliable in expressing vascular burden...

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Autores principales: Siennicki-Lantz, Arkadiusz, Elmståhl, Sölve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21967408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-11-57

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