Effects of race and hypertension on flow-mediated and nitroglycerin-mediated dilation of the brachial artery

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1349-1354

  Gokce, Noyan ^a,b   Holbrook, Monica ^a,b   Duffy, Stephen J ^a,b   Demissie, Serkalem ^a,b   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a,b   Biegelsen, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keaney Jr , John F ^a,b   Loscalzo, Joseph ^a,b   Vita, Joseph A ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Endothelium; Hypertension, essential; Nitroglycerin; Race

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0035674966     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hy1201.096575     Document Type: Article

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