Clinical relevance of about-yearly changes in blood pressure and the environment

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 161-175

  Halberg, Franz ^a   Cornélissen, Germaine ^a   Haus, Erhard ^b   Northrup, Gordon ^a   Portela, Ana ^a,c   Wendt, Hans ^a   Otsuka, Kuniaki ^d   Kumagai, Yuji ^e   Watanabe, Yoshihiko ^d   Zaslavskaya, Rina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Hospital   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amplitude; Blood pressure; Circadian; Circannual; Cosinor

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; MELATONIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SEASON;

ALDOSTERONE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MELATONIN; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SEASONS;

EID: 1542529923     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01221387     Document Type: Article

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