Arterial baroreflex function in older adults with neurocardiogenic syncope

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Madden, Kenneth M ^a,b   Lockhart, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre Vancouver Coastal Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

AGED; ARTERIES; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; MALE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 67649373339     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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