Alteration of diurnal rhythms of blood pressure and heart rate in workers exposed to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 323-330

  Szmigielski, Stanisław ^a   Bortkiewicz, Alicja ^b   Gadzicka, Elzbieta ^b   Zmyslony, Marek ^b   Kubacki, Roman ^a  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blood pressure monitoring; Diurnal rhythms; Electromagnetic fields; Radiofrequencies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RECORDING;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0032455925     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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