Effects of repeated Valsalva maneuver straining on cardiac and vasoconstrictive baroreflex responses

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 212-219

  Convertino, Victor A ^a   Ratliff, Duane A ^a   Doerr, Donald F ^a   Ludwig, David A ^a   Muniz, Gary W ^a   Benedetti, Erik ^a   Chavarria, Jose ^a   Koreen, Susan ^a   Nguyen, Claude ^a   Wang, Jeff ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptors; Heart rate; Valsalva maneuver; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AORTA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; PRESSORECEPTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0037335693     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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