Habitual hot water bathing protects cardiovascular function in middle-aged to elderly Japanese subjects

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Kohara, Katsuhiko ^a   Tabara, Yasuharu ^b   Ochi, Masayuki ^c   Okada, Yoko ^c   Ohara, Maya ^c   Nagai, Tokihisa ^c   Ohyagi, Yasumasa ^c   Igase, Michiya ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HABIT; HEAT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULSE WAVE; TIME FACTOR;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BATHS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HABITS; HEMODYNAMICS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85051574767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26908-1     Document Type: Article

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