Blood pressure changes in young male subjects exposed to a median altitude

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-89

  Sizlan, Ali ^a   Ogur, Recai ^a   Ozer, Mustafa ^a   Irmak, M Kemal ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Altitude; Autonomic system; Blood pressure; Heart rate; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDIAN ALTITUDE; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ALTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 43049132436     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-008-0459-y     Document Type: Article

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