Impairment in cardiac autonomic regulation preceding arterial hypertension in humans: Insights from spectral analysis of beat-by-beat cardiovascular variability

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2673-2679

  Lucini, Daniela ^a,b   Mela, Giuseppe Sandro ^c   Malliani, Alberto ^b   Pagani, Massimo ^a,b,d  

^a Centro di Ricerca sulla Terapia Neurovegetativa   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Hypertension; Nervous system, sympathetic; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART INNERVATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RR INTERVAL; SINOATRIAL CONDUCTION; STANDING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK;

EID: 0037137292     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000039106.89299.AB     Document Type: Article

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