Blacks and whites differ in responses, but not tolerance, to orthostatic stress

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-25

  Franke, Warren D ^a   Lee, Kichang ^a   Buchanan, Dwayne B ^a   Hernandez, Juliane P ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Blood pressure; Racial stocks; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYNCOPE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAROREFLEX; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 1842451862     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-004-0155-5     Document Type: Article

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