Circadian variation of blood pressure: Clinical relevance and implications for cardiovascular chronotherapeutics

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-51

  White, William B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Cardiovascular disease; Chronotherapy; Circadian blood pressure rhythms; Hypertension; Verapamil

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; QUINAPRIL; VERAPAMIL;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0030954906     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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