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Can Baroreflex Sensitivity be Assessed in a Fully Non-invasive Way?

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  1. Third Department of Internal Medicine, General University Hospital, First Medical School, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Dan Wichterle

  2. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital “Sv. Anna”, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomas Kara

  3. Department of Cardiological Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K.

    Marek Malik

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Wichterle, D., Kara, T. & Malik, M. Can Baroreflex Sensitivity be Assessed in a Fully Non-invasive Way?. Card Electrophysiol Rev 3, 294–296 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009928203959

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