Effects of acute and chronic stress on the L-arginine nitric oxide pathway in black and white South Africans: The sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 751-758

  Reimann, Manja ^a   Hamer, Mark ^b   Malan, Nicolaas T ^c   Schlaich, Markus P ^d   Lambert, Gavin W ^e   Ziemssen, Tjalf ^a   Boeger, Rainer H ^f   Malan, Leoné ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d Neurovascular Hypertension and Kidney Disease   (United States)

^e BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

African; Asymmetric dimethylarginine; Cold pressor test; Distress; L arginine nitric oxide pathway

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLITE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TEACHER;

AFRICAN; ASYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; DISTRESS; L-ARGININE/NITRIC OXIDE PATHWAY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARGININE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE; PRESSURE; REST; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84886098071     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182a3e465     Document Type: Article

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