Elderly blacks have a blunted sympathetic neural responsiveness but greater pressor response to orthostasis than elderly whites

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 842-848

  Okada, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Galbreath, M Melyn ^a,b   Jarvis, Sara S ^a,b   Bivens, Tiffany B ^a   Vongpatanasin, Wanpen ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,b   Fu, Qi ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; muscle sympathetic nerve activity; race; sympathetic vascular transduction; vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DIZZINESS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84865455528     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.195313     Document Type: Article

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