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. 2018 Jun:22:64-67.
doi: 10.1016/j.artres.2018.05.002. Epub 2018 May 26.

Carotid artery stiffness and cerebral pulsatility in children

Wesley K Lefferts  1 , Jacob P DeBlois  1 , Brooks B Gump  1 , Kevin S Heffernan  1
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Carotid artery stiffness and cerebral pulsatility in children

Wesley K Lefferts et al. Artery Res. 2018 Jun.
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Path analysis highlighting inter-relation between carotid artery stiffness, carotid hemodynamic pulsatility and cerebral hemodynamic pulsatility in children. Presented as unstandardized (standardized) coefficients.
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