Clinical significance of pressor responses to laboratory stressor testing in hypertension

Hypertension Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-137

  Murakami, Eiki ^a   Matsuzaki, Keisuke ^a   Sumimoto, Takumi ^a   Mukai, Mikio ^a   Kazatani, Yukio ^b   Kodama, Koji ^c  

^a Kinki Central Hospital of Mutual Association of Public School Teachers   (Japan)

^b EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure variability; Catecholamine; Hypertension; Left ventricular mass; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRESSOR RESPONSE;

EID: 0030017958     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.19.133     Document Type: Article

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