Office hypertension: Abnormal blood pressure regulation and increased sympathetic activity compared with normotension

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 403-407

  Middeke, Martin ^a,c   Lemmer, Björn ^b  

^a Reha Zentrum Spreewald   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Rena Zentrum Spreewald   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Amplitude; Early morning rise; Office hypertension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002288682     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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