Overweight and sympathetic overactivity in black Americans

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 379-383

  Abate, Nicola I ^a   Mansour, Yasser H ^a   Tuncel, Meryem ^a   Arbique, Debbie ^a   Chavoshan, Bahman ^a   Kizilbash, Ali ^a   Howell Stampley, Temple ^a   Vongpatanasin, Wanpen ^a   Victor, Ronald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Blood pressure; Obesity; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEGRO; NEUROGRAPHY; OBESITY; PERONEUS NERVE; PHENOTYPE; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0035572805     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.38.3.379     Document Type: Article

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