Are compression stockings an effective treatment for orthostatic presyncope?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Protheroe, Clare Louise ^a   Dikareva, Anastasia ^a   Menon, Carlo ^a   Claydon, Victoria Elizabeth ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEAD TILTING; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC PRESYNCOPE; ORTHOSTATIC TOLERANCE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRESYNCOPE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANKLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; HOMEOSTASIS; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; ANKLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; STROKE VOLUME; SYNCOPE;

EID: 83455186955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028193     Document Type: Article

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