Evolution of blood pressure regulation in humans

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Young, J Hunter ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LATITUDE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLELES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLIMATE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34047252306     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-007-0004-8     Document Type: Review

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