Effect of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake on home blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 222-225

  Minami, Junichi ^a   Kawano, Yuhei ^a   Ishimitsu, Toshihiko ^a   Yoshimi, Hiroki ^a   Takishita, Shuichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

earthquake; home blood pressure; hypertension; psychological stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; SELF-EXAMINATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031081640     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(96)00328-7     Document Type: Article

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