Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: coming of age in nephrology.
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: coming of age in nephrology.
The number of patients undergoing ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the number of publications using this technique to evaluate the risks and effects of high blood pressure on target organs has been increasing, and dramatically so, in the last 5 years. Much of this growth has centered on the role of the blood pressure load (the percentage of systolic or diastolic readings above a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1681/asn.v7112279