Acute and subacute effects of the great east Japan earthquake on home blood pressure values

Hypertension

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Satoh, Michihiro ^a   Kikuya, Masahiro ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a,b   Imai, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARTHQUAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 85027954581     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.111.184077     Document Type: Letter

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