Overweight and Sympathetic Overactivity in Black Americans
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 38 (3), 379-383
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.38.3.379
Abstract
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...Keywords
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