Intensified large artery and microvascular response to cold adrenergic stimulation in african blacks

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 958-963

  Adamopoulos, Dionysios ^a   Ngatchou, William ^a   Lemogoum, Daniel ^a   Janssen, Christophe ^a   Beloka, Sofia ^a   Lheureux, Oliver ^a   Kayembe, Patricia ^a   Argacha, Jean François ^a   Degaute, Jean Paul ^a   Van De Borne, Philippe ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; COLD TEMPERATURE; ELASTICITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PULSE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 69249230814     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2009.106     Document Type: Article

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