Are heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress predictive of clinical cardiovascular events? The answer varies by coronary artery disease syndrome

American Heart Journal

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-198

  Sheps, David S ^a   Bragdon, Edith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PREDICTION; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0043128837     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(03)00183-2     Document Type: Editorial

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