Pulse Pressure, Arterial Stiffness, and Drug Treatment of Hypertension
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 38 (4) , 914-921
- https://doi.org/10.1161/hy1001.095773
Abstract
Epidemiological studies in the past decade have stressed the importance of pulse pressure as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We briefly review the epidemiolog...Keywords
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