The intra- and interobserver variability of ankle-arm blood pressure index according to its mode of calculation.

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Published in J Clin Epidemiol on March 01, 2003

Authors

Victor Aboyans1, Philippe Lacroix, Arnaud Lebourdon, Pierre-Marie Preux, Jean Ferrières, Mare Laskar

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery & Vascular Medicine, Dupuytren University Hospital 2, Martin Luther King Avenue, Limoges F-87042, France. aboyans@unilim.fr

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