Effects of age and gender on autonomic control of blood pressure dynamics

Hypertension

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1195-1200

  Barnett, Sheila R ^a   Morin, Raymond J ^a   Kiely, Dan K ^a   Gagnon, Margaret ^a   Azhar, Gohar ^a   Knight, Eric L ^a   Nelson, Jerald C ^b   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b QUEST DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypotension; Norepinephrine; Spectral analysis; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; NORADRENALIN; RENIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032895751     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.33.5.1195     Document Type: Article

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