Vascular reactivity is impaired in genetic females taking high- dose androgens

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1331-1335

  McCredie, Robyn J ^a   McCrohon, Jane A ^a   Turner, Leo ^a   Griffiths, Kaye A ^a   Handelsman, David J ^a,b   Celermajer, David S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ESTER;

ADULT; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITROGLYCERIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSSEXUALISM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR CAPACITANCE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032213315     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00416-1     Document Type: Article

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