High pulse pressure protects against headache: Prospective and cross-sectional data (HUNT study)

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1329-1336

  Tronvik, E ^a   Stovner, L J ^a   Hagen, K ^a   Holmen, J ^b   Zwart, J A ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIGRAINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 42249083935     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000309222.79376.57     Document Type: Article

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