REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY
Arterial Stiffness: A New Cardiovascular Risk Factor?
Donna K. Arnett, Gregory W. Evans, and Ward A. Riley
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Article topics:
- Physiology..Arterial Stiffness
- Medicine..Epidemiology
- Medicine..Environment and Public Health
- Medicine..Hypertension, Epidemiology
- Medicine..Mortality and Morbidity
- Medicine..Diabetes Epidemiology
- Medicine..Hypertension
- Medicine..Arteriosclerosis
- Physiology..Arteries
- Medicine..Risk Factors
- Medicine..Epidemiology of Stroke
- Medicine..Hypertension, Complications
- Neuroscience..Cerebrovascular Accident
- Medicine..Public Health
- Medicine..Cardiovascular Diseases
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