Serum luteinizing hormone levels are markedly increased and significantly correlated with Δ4-androstenedione levels in lean women with polycystic ovary syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 538-540

  Panidis, Dimitrios ^a   Farmakiotis, Dimitrios ^a   Rousso, David ^a   Katsikis, Ilias ^a   Kourtis, Anargyros ^a,c   Diamanti Kandarakis, Evanthia ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; THINNESS;

EID: 23744488235     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.02.017     Document Type: Article

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