Exercise training favourably affects autonomic and blood pressure responses during mental and physical stressors in African-American men

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-273

  Bond, V ^a   Bartels, M N ^b   Sloan, R P ^b   Millis, R M ^a   Zion, A S ^b   Andrews, N ^a   De Meersman, R E ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL STRESS; POPULATION RISK; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PULSE WAVE; RISK REDUCTION; SITTING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63349109251     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2008.125     Document Type: Article

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