Subchronic antidepressant treatment with venlafaxine or imipramine and effects on blood pressure and heart rate: Assessment by automatic 24-hour monitoring

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 72-78

  Grunder G ^a   Wetzel, H ^a   Schloßer R ^a   Benkert, O ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; PLACEBO; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0029872107     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979548     Document Type: Article

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