The mind/body link in essential hypertension: Time for a new paradigm

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 39-45

  Mann, Samuel J ^a  

^a INNOVISION COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033922010     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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