Blood pressure biofeedback treatment, organ damage and sympathetic activity in mild hypertension

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 341-347

  Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a,b,c   Nomura, Shinobu ^a   Shimosawa, Tatsuo ^c   Fujita, Toshiro ^c   Kuboki, Tomifusa ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofeedback; Blood pressure; Mild hypertension; Organ damage; Sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032727148     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012353     Document Type: Article

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