The endocrine transition around menopause - A five years prospective study with profiles of gonadotropines, estrogens, androgens and SHBG among healthy women

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 642-647

  Overlie, Inger ^a,c   Moen, Mette Haase ^b   Morkrid, Lars ^a   Skjæraasen, Julie S ^a   Holte, Arne ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Climacteric; Sex hormones; Steroid hormone binding globuline

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0032997880     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/j.1600-0412.1999.780714.x     Document Type: Article

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