Effect of pure genistein on bone markers and hot flushes

Climacteric

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 371-379

  Albertazzi, P ^a,c   Steel, S A ^a   Bottazzi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone markers; Genistein; Hot flushes

Indexed keywords

CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; EQUOL; GENISTEIN; OSTEOCALCIN; TELOPEPTIDE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOATING; BONE TURNOVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEADACHE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA BLEEDING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; ISOFLAVONES; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOCALCIN; OVARY; PEPTIDES; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERUS;

EID: 27744591008     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13697130500345257     Document Type: Article

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