Rheologic Dissimilarities in Female and Male Blood: Potential Link to Development of Cardiovascular Diseases

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 530, Issue , 2003, Pages 689-696

  Kameneva, Marina V ^a,b   Watach, Mary J ^a   Borovetz, Harvey S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood viscosity; Cardiovascular; Gender; Hematocrit; Oxygen delivery; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN DELIVERY INDEX; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PARAMETER; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0242361795     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0075-9_69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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