Heritability of blood pressure responses to cold pressor test in a chinese population

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1096-1100

  Mei, Hao ^a   Gu, Dongfeng ^b   Rice, Treva K ^c   Hixson, James E ^d   Chen, Jing ^e   Jaquish, Cashell E ^f   Zhao, Qi ^a   Chen, Chung Shiuan ^a   Chen, Ji Chun ^b   Gu, C Charles ^c   Kelly, Tanika N ^a   He, Jiang ^a,e  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY MASS; CHINESE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONVALESCENCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIBLING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHINA; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMERSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349448434     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2009.139     Document Type: Article

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