Thousands of blood pressure and heart rate measurements at fixed clock hours may mislead

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 339-340

  Watanabe, Yoshihiko ^a   Cornélissen, Germaine ^b   Halberg, Franz ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrophase; Aliasing; Circadian; Circannual; Modulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; WINTER;

EID: 0242721528     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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