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Measuring the Carotid to Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity Cf-PWV to Evaluate Arterial Stiffness
Published on: May 3, 2018
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New Epoch for Arterial Stiffness Measurement in the Clinic
Jeong Bae Park1, Kazuomi Kario2
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cheil General Hospital, Dankook University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Pulse (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 10, 2017
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