Predictors of an abnormal postexercise ankle brachial index: Importance of the lowest ankle pressure in calculating the resting ankle brachial index
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Ankle-brachial index.
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0160-9289
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22808