Effect of bedtime melatonin ingestion on blood pressure of normotensive subjects

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-103

  Lusardi, Paola ^a,b   Preti, Paola ^a   Savino, Sandra ^a   Piazza, Elena ^a   Zoppi, Annalisa ^a   Fogari, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Blood pressure; Heart rate; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PINEAL BODY HORMONE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0030798059     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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