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. 2018 Mar;20(3):469-471.
doi: 10.1111/jch.13204. Epub 2018 Jan 25.

Peripheral arterial stiffness as a surrogate of central hemodynamics: A new era for cardiovascular risk estimation?

Michael Doumas  1 , Konstantinos P Imprialos  2 , Konstantinos Stavropoulos  2 , Vasilios G Athyros  2
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Peripheral arterial stiffness as a surrogate of central hemodynamics: A new era for cardiovascular risk estimation?

Michael Doumas et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2018 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: arterial stiffness; cardiovascular risk; central hemodynamics; evaluation; pulse wave velocity.

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VGA has given talks and participated in studies sponsored by AMGEN, Sanofi, and MSD. The other authors have no conflict of interest.

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