Is there an association between athletic amenorrhea and endothelial cell dysfunction?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-383

  Hoch, Anne Zeni ^a   Dempsey, Rania L ^a   Carrera, Guillermo F ^a   Wilson, Charles R ^a   Chen, Ellen H ^a   Barnabei, Vanessa M ^a   Sandford, Paul R ^a   Ryan, Tracey A ^c   Gutterman, David D ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Female athlete triad; Female athletes; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE DENSITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENARCHE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; OLIGOMENORRHEA; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; EATING; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; NITROGLYCERIN; OLIGOMENORRHEA; SPORTS; STATISTICS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0037372104     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000053661.27992.75     Document Type: Article

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