Endothelial function fluctuates with diurnal variation in the frequency of ischemic episodes in patients with variant angina

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 266-270

  Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Motoyama, Takeshi ^a   Yasue, Hirofumi ^b   Hirai, Nobutaka ^a   Waly, Hesham M ^d   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^c   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto Aging Research Institute   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037125368     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01956-3     Document Type: Article

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