Does hormone replacement therapy influence retinal microvascular caliber?

Microvascular Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-54

  Leung, Harry ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a   Rochtchina, Elena ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^b   Klein, Ronald ^c   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hormone replacement therapy; Microvasculature; Retinal arteriole; Retinal venule; Retinal vessel diameters; The Blue Mountains Eye Study

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0346098109     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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