Assessment of autonomic nerve activity - Approach to gender differences in cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes -

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1320-1321

  Kawamura, Yuichiro ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RR INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VAGUS TONE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957803843     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0258     Document Type: Editorial

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