Spurious Hypertension in the Obese Patient
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 144 (7) , 1482-1485
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1984.00350190188032
Abstract
• We used standard, large adult, and thigh-size cuffs in random order to take BPs in 470 patients. The prevalences of definite high BP ([HBP],≥160/95 mm Hg) and borderline HBP ([BHBP],≥140/90Arch Intern Med 1984;144:1482-1485)This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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