Adrenergic and reflex abnormalities in obesity-related hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 538-542

  Grassi, Guido ^a,b,c   Seravalle, Gino ^b,c   Dell'Oro, Raffaella ^a   Turri, Carlo ^b   Bolla, Giovanni Battista ^b   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,b,c  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baroreceptors; Hypertension, essential; Nervous system, autonomic; Nervous system, sympathetic; Obesity

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OBESITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0033775114     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.36.4.538     Document Type: Article

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