Seasonal variations in office and home blood pressures in hypertensive patients treated with antihypertensive drugs

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Minami, Junichi ^a   Ishimitsu, Toshihiko ^a   Kawano, Yuhei ^b   Matsuoka, Hiroaki ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antihypertensive medication; Home blood pressure; Office blood pressure; Seasonal variations; Sex; White coat effect

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0031809024     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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