Menstrual cycle effects on catecholamine and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in black but not white normotensive women

Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 962-967

  Mills, Paul J ^a,b   Nelesen, Richard A ^a   Ziegler, Michael G ^a   Parry, Barbara L ^a   Berry, Charles C ^a   Dillon, Elaine ^a   Dimsdale, Joel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; epinephrine; menstrual cycle; norepinephrine; race; stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; NORADRENALIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

EID: 0029880398     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.27.4.962     Document Type: Article

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