Determination of vagal baroreflex sensitivity in normal subjects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 535-540

  Wada, Naoki ^a,b   Singer, Wolfgang ^a   Gehrking, Tonette L ^a   Sletten, David M ^a   Schmelzer, James D ^a   Kihara, Mikihiro ^b   Low, Phillip A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Hidaka Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Baroreflex sensitivity; Blood pressure; Normal subject; Valsalva maneuver

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VAGUS REFLEX; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; VAGUS NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VAGUS NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922479643     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24191     Document Type: Article

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