Reliability of serum hormones in premenopausal and postmenopausal women over a one-year period

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 917-922

  Muti, Paola ^a,c   Trevisan, Maurizio ^a   Micheli, Andrea ^c   Krogh, Vittorio ^c   Bolelli, Gianfranco ^b   Sciajno, Raffaella ^b   Berrino, Franco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE; INSULIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; ITALY; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; C-PEPTIDE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INSULIN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0029826504     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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