The role of body position and gravity in the symptoms and treatment of various medical diseases

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 134, Issue 37-38, 2004, Pages 543-551

  Martin Du Pan, Rémy C ^a   Benoit, Raymond ^b   Girardier, Lucia ^c  

^a FMH en Endocrinologie/Diabetologie   (Switzerland)

^b FMH en Angiologie   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Body position; Circulatory and respiratory disease; Gravity; Postural treatment

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BED REST; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DECUBITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLAUCOMA; GRAVITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IDIOPATHIC EDEMA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROGRAVITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEINURIA; RECUMBENCY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SITTING; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STANDING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPY; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS CIRCULATION; VENOUS RETURN;

EID: 8444220088     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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