Effects of age on the cardiac and vascular limbs of the arterial baroreflex

European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-16

  Brown, Clive M ^a   Hecht, M J ^a   Weih, A ^a   Neundorfer B ^a   Hilz, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex; Blood pressure; Heart rate; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RR INTERVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SUCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PRESSORECEPTORS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUCTION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0037221564     PISSN: 00142972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2003.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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