Spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity in young and older people during voluntary and electrically evoked isometric exercise

Age and Ageing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 359-364

  Carrington, Charlotte A ^a   White, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous function; Blood pressure; Cardiovagal baroreflex; Heart rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGING; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036750607     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/31.5.359     Document Type: Article

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