Sympathetic response to ventricular extrasystolic beats in hypertension and heart failure

Hypertension

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 886-891

  Grassi, Guido ^a   Seravalle, Gino ^a   Bertinieri, Giovanni ^a   Stella, Maria Luisa ^a   Turri, Carlo ^a   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Baroreflex; Heart failure; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0036238966     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000013265.48954.A5     Document Type: Article

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