Higher plasma homocysteine concentration is associated with more advanced systematic arterial stiffness and greater blood pressure response to stress in hypertensive patients

Hypertension Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 403-409

  Tayama, Jun ^a   Munakata, Masanori ^a   Yoshinaga, Kaoru ^a   Toyota, Takayoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Autonomic nervous system; Blood pressure; Homocysteine; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; NEUROHORMONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RR INTERVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; STRESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33746286936     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.29.403     Document Type: Article

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