Plasma renin responses to mental stress and carotid intima-media thickness in black Africans: The SABPA study

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 437-443

  Hamer, M ^a   Malan, L ^b   Schutte, A E ^b   Huisman, H W ^b   Van Rooyen, J M ^b   Schutte, R ^b   Fourie, C M T ^b   Malan, N T ^b   Seedat, Y K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; black African; mental stress; psychophysiology; rennin

Indexed keywords

RENIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; STROOP TEST; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79959301216     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2010.82     Document Type: Article

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