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Central and peripheral blood pressure profile of young offspring with hypertensive and normotensive parents.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Aug 2012
Othman Azli S, Othman Nur I, Rosman Azhari, Nudin Siti S H, Rahman Abdul R A
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OBJECTIVES: In this cross-sectional study we compared the central aortic systolic pressure (CASP), peripheral brachial systolic pressure (PSP), peripheral brachial diastolic pressure (PDP) and augmentation index (AIx) between normotensive offspring of nonhypertensive parents (ONT) and normotensive offspring with at least one hypertensive parent (OHT). METHODOLOGY: A total of 100 healthy ONT (mean age 20.95 ±...
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