Effects of mental stress on brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilation in healthy normal individuals

American Heart Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 405-411

  Harris, Charles W ^a   Edwards, Jennifer L ^a   Baruch, Amy ^a   Riley, Ward A ^a   Pusser, Benjamin E ^a   Rejeski, Walter J ^b   Herrington, David M ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0034062489     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(00)90083-8     Document Type: Article

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