Environmental influences on blood pressure and the role of job strain

Journal of Hypertension, Supplement

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages

  Pickering, Thomas G ^a   Devereux, Richard B ^a   James, Gary D ^a   Gerin, William ^a   Landsbergis, Paul ^a   Schnall, Peter L ^a,b   Schwartz, Joseph E ^a,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Center for Social Epidemiology   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Left ventricular mass; Occupational stress; Reactivity; Sex

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFLICT; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URBANIZATION; WORK;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK;

EID: 0030450275     PISSN: 09521178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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