Seasonal influence on blood pressure in elderly normotensive subjects

Hypertension Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 569-574

  Hayashi, Tomohito ^a   Ohshige, Kenji ^a   Sawai, Asuka ^a   Yamasue, Kotarou ^a   Tochikubo, Osamu ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Heart rate; Meteorologic factors; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; WAKEFULNESS; WEATHER; WINTER;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 42649133208     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.31.569     Document Type: Article

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