Estrogen therapy increases plasma concentrations of nitric oxide metabolites in postmenopausal women but increases flow-mediated vasodilation only in younger women

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1550-1555

  López Jaramillo, Patricio ^a,b,c   Díaz, Luis Alfonso ^d   Pardo, Alberto ^d   Parra, Gustavo ^d,e   Jaimes, Hermes ^b   Chaudhuri, Gautam ^f  

^a FUNDACIÓN CARDIOVASCULAR DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

^c Inst Colombiano de Invest Biomed   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUCARAMANGA   (Colombia)

^e Banco Multitejidos y Centro de Terapias Avanzadas   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

age related differences; Estrogen therapy; flow mediated vasodilation; menopause; nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CREATININE; ESTERMAX; GLUCOSE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; VASODILATATION;

AGED; AGING; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITRITES; POSTMENOPAUSE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATION;

EID: 10044256767     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.05.083     Document Type: Article

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