Calcium treatment of essential hypertension in elderly patients evaluated by 24 h monitoring

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 836-839

  Takagi, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Fukase, Masaaki ^a,b   Takata, Shoichtro ^a,b   Fujimi, Tadao ^a,b   Fujita, Takuo ^a,b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Science and Culture ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium supplementation; Essential hypertension; Ionized calcium; Parathyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CALCIUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONES; SODIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026003283     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/4.10.836     Document Type: Article

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