Frequency domain of heart rate and blood pressure variability in essential hypertensive patients during sleep: Differences between dippers and non-dippers

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 425-431

  Frisina, Nicola ^a,b   Pedullà, Marilena ^a   Mento, Giuseppe ^a   Lanuzza, Bartolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Salita Villa Contino   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Non dippers; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001406799     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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