Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on March 30, 2010

Authors

Charalambos Vlachopoulos1, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Author Affiliations

1: Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. cvlachop@otenet.gr <cvlachop@otenet.gr>

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