Pre-hypertension and central aortic haemodynamics
| dc.contributor.author | Booysen, Hendrik Le Roux | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-15T13:13:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-15T13:13:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | One quarter of any community may have normal (normal/high-normal) as opposed to optimal or hypertensive blood pressures (BP). These individuals may be at risk for a BP-related cardiovascular event, but do not qualify for BP-lowering therapy as those at risk are difficult to identify. In the present thesis I sought to determine whether aspects of non-invasively determined aortic BP may refine BPrelated cardiovascular risk assessment in those with brachial BP values within normotensive ranges. In 1169 participants from a community sample of African ancestry, 319 (27%) | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18659 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.mesh | Hypertension -- diagnosis | |
| dc.title | Pre-hypertension and central aortic haemodynamics | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |