Blood pressure responses to acute static and dynamic exercise in three racial groups

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1793-1798

  Leon Wright, Reuben ^a   Swain, David P ^a   Branch, J David ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diastolic blood pressure; Hypertension; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0342545855     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199912000-00015     Document Type: Article

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