Smoking is associated with chronic sympathetic activation in hypertension

Blood Pressure

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 152-155

  Hering, Dagmara ^a   Kucharska, Wieslawa ^a   Kara, Tomas ^b   Somers, Virend K ^b   Narkiewicz, Krzysztof ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Heart rate; Hypertension; Smoking; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SMOKING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; SMOKING; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77952853718     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2010.484150     Document Type: Article

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