The effect of balneotherapy on antioxidant, inflammatory, and metabolic indices in patients with cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension and obesity)-A randomised, controlled, follow-up study

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 793-801

  Oláh, Mihály ^a   Koncz, Ágnes ^d   Fehér, Judit ^a   Kálmánczhey, Judit ^a   Oláh, Csaba ^b   Nagy, György ^c   Bender, Tamás ^c  

^a Hungarospa Hajdúszoboszló Private Limited Company   (Hungary)

^b Borsod County Teaching Hospital   (Hungary)

^c Hospital of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God in Buda ^*  (Hungary)

^d HEIM PÁL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Balneotherapy; Hypertension; Obesity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT INDEX; ARTICLE; BALNEOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATORY INDEX; MALE; METABOLIC INDEX; OBESITY; PARAMETER; PATIENT SAFETY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BALNEOLOGY; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053385903     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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