Mental stress as a causal factor in the development of hypertension and cardiovascular disease

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-254

  Pickering, Thomas G ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENTAL STRESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035379573     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-001-0047-1     Document Type: Article

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