Blood pressure, gender, and parental hypertension are factors in baseline and poststress pain sensitivity in normotensive adults

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-38

  Bragdon, Edith E ^a   Light, Kathleen C ^b,c   Girdler, Susan S ^b   Maixner, William ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Blood pressure; Cardiac index; Gender; Parental hypertension; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001839041     PISSN: 10705503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm0401_2     Document Type: Article

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