Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women Differ in their Cardiovascular and Neuroendocrine Responses to Behavioral Stressors

Psychophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 270-280

  Saab, Patrice G ^a   Matthews, Karen A ^b   Stoney, Catherine M ^b   McDonald, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral stress; Catecholamines; Coronary heart disease; Heart rate; Menopause; Middle aged women; Reproductive hormones; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; FOLLITROPIN;

BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENOPAUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRESS;

AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGE; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEX HORMONES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024324561     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1989.tb01917.x     Document Type: Article

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