Seasonal variations of hemorheological and lipid parameters in middle-aged healthy subjects

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Otto, Carsten ^a   Donner, Markus G ^a   Schwandt, Peter ^a   Richter, Werner O ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood viscosity; Fibrinogen; Plasma viscosity; Red cell aggregation; Seasonal fluctuation

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADULT; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CELL AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS;

EID: 0030577485     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(96)06414-5     Document Type: Article

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