The effects of low-intensity single-leg exercise on regional arterial stiffness

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-241

  Sugawara, Jun ^a   Otsuki, Takeshi ^b   Tanabe, Takumi ^b   Maeda, Seiji ^b   Kuno, Shinya ^b   Ajisaka, Ryuichi ^b   Matsuda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Exercise; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSE WAVE;

ADULT; ARTERIES; ELASTICITY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE;

EID: 0141891854     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.53.239     Document Type: Article

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