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Prevalence of arterial stiffness in North China, and associations with risk factors of cardiovascular disease: a community-based study

BACKGROUND: Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), which reflects the stiffness of both central and peripheral muscular arteries, has been frequently used as a simple index for assessing arterial stiffness. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of arterial stiffness in...

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Autores principales: Wang, Jin-Wen, Zhou, Zi-Qiang, Hu, Da-Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23217203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-12-119