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Measurement of the ankle brachial index with a non-mercury sphygmomanometer in diabetic patients: a concordance study

BACKGROUND: The removal of mercury sphygmomanometers from health centers requires the validation of other instruments to measure blood pressure in the limbs to calculate the ankle-brachial index (ABI). METHODS: Descriptive cross-sectional study of agreement between two measurement methods in type 2...

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Autores principales: Bundó, Magdalena, Urrea, Magali, Muñoz-Ortíz, Laura, Pérez, Carmen, Llussà, Judit, Forés, Rosa, Alzamora, María Teresa, Torán, Pere
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-13-15