Stress and its role in sympathetic nervous system activation in hypertension and the metabolic syndrome

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 244-248

  Lambert, Elisabeth A ^a   Lambert, Gavin W ^a  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Stress; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREDICTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 79956222387     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-011-0186-y     Document Type: Article

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