The Association of Resting Heart Rate and Incident Hypertension: The Henry Ford Hospital Exercise Testing (FIT) Project.

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Abstract

Given that sympathetic tone is associated with hypertension, we sought to determine whether resting heart rate (RHR), as a surrogate for cardiac autonomic function, was associated with incident hypertension.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Am. J. Hypertens.

Title: American journal of hypertension

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Electronic): 1941-7225

ISSN (Print): 0895-7061

Publication date (Electronic): Feb 2016

Volume: 29

Issue: 2

Affiliations

[1 ] Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;

[2 ] Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA;

[3 ] Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Division of Cardiology and Imaging, King Abdul-Aziz Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

[4 ] Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; jmcevoy1@jhmi.edu.

Article

Publisher Item ID: hpv095

DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpv095

PubMed ID: 26112864

SO-VID: f8ce48dd-c3c8-4e5b-9be5-d5b689293d22

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Keywords: blood pressure,resting heart rate.,fitness,hypertension

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Keywords: blood pressure, resting heart rate., fitness, hypertension

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