Repeated sauna treatment improves vascular endothelial and cardiac function in patients with chronic heart failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 754-759

  Kihara, Takashi ^a   Biro, Sadatoshi ^a   Imamura, Masakazu ^a   Yoshifuku, Shiro ^a   Takasaki, Kunitsugu ^a   Ikeda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Otuji, Yutaka ^a   Minagoe, Shinichi ^a   Toyama, Yoshifumi ^b   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nanpuh Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUNA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETREATMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEAM BATH;

EID: 0037028864     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01824-1     Document Type: Article

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