Seasonal variation in blood pressure in normotensive women studied by home measurements

Clinical Science

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-60

  Imai, Yutaka ^a   Munakata, Masanori ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshino, Hiroshi ^b   Watanabe, Noriko ^a   Nishiyama, Akimitsu ^a   Onodera, Noriko ^a   Kato, Junko ^a   Sekino, Makoto ^a   Aihara, Akiko ^a   Kasai, Yutaka ^c   Abe, Keishi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Daytime length; Indoor temperature; Outdoor temperature; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 9044226532     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0900055     Document Type: Article

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