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Repeatability of Different Segmental Pulse Wave Velocity Measurements
Theodore G Papaioannou1, Kimon Stamatelopoulos2, Dimitrios Tousoulis3
1First Department of Cardiology, Biomedical Engineering Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; thepap@med.uoa.gr.
American Journal of Hypertension
|May 13, 2016
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