Seasonal changes in blood pressure and frequency of related complications in elderly Israeli patients with essential hypertension

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 315-321

  Charach, Gideon ^a   Rabinovich, Pavel D ^a   Weintraub, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Office blood pressure; Seasonal effects; Seasonal variations

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SUMMER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WINTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISRAEL; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SEASONS; SYSTOLE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 4444256640     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079130     Document Type: Article

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