Relation between nocturnal decline in blood pressure and mortality: The Ohasama study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1201-1207

  Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Imai, Yutaka ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Nagai, Kenichi ^b   Watanabe, Noriko ^a   Minami, Naoyoshi ^a   Kato, Junko ^a   Kikuchi, Noriko ^a   Nishiyama, Akimitsu ^a   Aihara, Akiko ^a   Sekino, Makoto ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ohasama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mortality; Nocturnal decline in blood pressure; Population based subjects; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 0031280188     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(97)00274-4     Document Type: Article

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