Menstrual disturbances in athletes: A focus on luteal phase defects

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1553-1563

  De Souza, Mary Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Exercise; Hypometabolic state; Luteal phase defects; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ATHLETE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEAL INSUFFICIENCY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; ESTRADIOL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PROGESTERONE; SPORTS;

EID: 0041732350     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000084530.31478.DF     Document Type: Conference Paper

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