Effect of room temperature on percentage finger systolic blood pressure response to finger cooling

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 626-632

  Laskar, M S ^a   Ohmura, K ^b   Inoue, M ^a   Yokoyama, K ^a   Inagaki, J ^a   Takahashi, Y ^a   Mahbub, M H ^a   Ohnari, H ^a   Harada, N ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ogori Daiichi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effect; Finger cooling; Healthy subjects; Percentage finger systolic blood pressure; Room temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COOLING; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VIBRATION SYNDROME; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS;

EID: 23744453433     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-005-1363-y     Document Type: Article

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