American journal of hypertension
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Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Invasive validation of arteriograph estimates of central blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Central blood pressure (BP) has attracted increasing interest because of a potential superiority over brachial BP in predicting cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Several devices estimating central BP noninvasively are now available. The aim of our study was to determine the validity of the Arteriograph, a brachial cuff-based, oscillometric device, in patients with type 2 diabetes. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT01538290.