How can we block sympathetic overactivity? Effects of rilmenidine and atenolol in overweight hypertensive patients
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Overweight and sympathetic overactivity in black Americans.
A large body of clinical investigation implicates an important role for the sympathetic nervous system in linking obesity with hypertension. However, the experimental support for this hypothesis is derived from strictly white cohorts. The goal of this study was to determine whether being overweight begets sympathetic overactivity in black Americans, the ethnic minority at highest risk for hyper...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Hypertension
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0950-9240,1476-5527
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1002004