Estrogen protection against coronary heart disease: Are the relevant effects of estrogen mediated through its effects on uterus - Such as the induction of menstruation, increased bleeding, and the facilitation of pregnancy?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 725-727

  Paranjape, S G ^a   Turankar, A V ^a   Wakode, S L ^a   Dakhale, G N ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD DONOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIUM; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYSTERECTOMY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUATION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS;

ADULT; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; PREGNANCY; SEX FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 22544483246     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.04.030     Document Type: Article

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