Conjugated estrogen administration improves common carotid artery elastic properties in normotensive postmenopausal women

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 167-172

  Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a   Tsioufis, Costas ^a   Zambaras, Panagiotis ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carotid artery distensibility; Conjugated estrogen; Postmenopausal women

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; ELASTICITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; SIDE EFFECT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGING; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELASTICITY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSATILE FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036204547     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960250407     Document Type: Article

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