Effects of administration of 17β-oestradiol on serum leptin levels in healthy postmenopausal women

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 449-454

  Elbers, Jolanda M H ^a   De Valk De Roo, Gerdien W ^a   Popp Snijders, Corrie ^a   Nicolaas Merkus, Ans ^a   Westerveen, Edo ^a   Joenje, Bas W ^a   Netelenbos, J Coen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; INSULIN; LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; IMPEDANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MIDDLE AGED; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033203087     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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