The relationship between obesity and race on inhibin B during the menopause transition

Menopause

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-566

  Gracia, Clarisa R ^a,b   Freeman, Ellen W ^a   Sammel, Mary D ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Nelson, Deborah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Penn Fertility Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhibin B; Menopause; Menopause transition; Obesity; Race

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B;

ADULT; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 25444471255     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000172268.24949.94     Document Type: Article

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