Job strain, ethnicity, and sympathetic nervous system activity

Hypertension

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 891-896

  Thomas, KaMala S ^a,b   Nelesen, Richard A ^b   Ziegler, Michael G ^c   Bardwell, Wayne A ^b   Dimsdale, Joel E ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Blacks; Blood pressure; Catecholamines; Norepinephrine

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS; WORK;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EPINEPHRINE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOMIMETICS;

EID: 9644304473     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000148499.54730.0d     Document Type: Article

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