Does Schumann resonance affect our blood pressure?

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Mitsutake, G ^a   Otsuka, K ^a   Hayakawa, M ^b   Sekiguchi, M ^b   Cornelissen G ^c   Halberg, F ^c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Depression; ELF; Geomagnetic; Schumann resonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; STUDENT T TEST; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 27744588739     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0753-3322(05)80003-4     Document Type: Article

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