Baroreflex function in sedentary and endurance-trained elderly people

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 289-294

  Bowman, Andrew J ^a   Clayton, Richard H ^b   Murray, Alan ^b   Reed, James W ^a   Feisal Subhan, M Feisal ^a   Ford, Gary A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Baroreflex sensitivity; Exercise; Heart rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030757982     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.4.289     Document Type: Article

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