A case report: Can altitude change blood pressure that much?

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 498-499

  Khouzam, Rami N ^a   Aziz, Ramy K ^b  

^a Farmington Heart Center   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE PLUS OLMESARTAN; METOPROLOL; TERAZOSIN;

AGED; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVENING DOSAGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAVEL; ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; DIASTOLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ALTITUDE; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYSTOLE;

EID: 70349974435     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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