Effect of long-term estrogen therapy on brachial arterial endothelium-dependent vasodilation in women with Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to systemic sclerosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1555-1557

  Lekakis, John ^a,b   Papamichael, Christos ^a   Mavrikakis, Myron ^a   Voutsas, Anastasios ^a   Stamatelopoulos, Stamatios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATION;

EID: 0032535684     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00708-5     Document Type: Article

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