Reproducibility of Plasma Hormone Levels in Postmenopausal Women over a 2-3-year Period

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 649-654

  Hankinson, Susan E ^a,e   Manson, Joann E ^b,e   Willett, Walter C ^a,c,e   Speizer, Frank E ^e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; ESTRONE SULFATE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0029145660     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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