Inflammatory Mediators Across the Spectrum of Ankle-Brachial Index
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Ankle-brachial index.
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background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1340-3478,1880-3873
DOI: 10.5551/jat.44891