Effects of aging, menopause, and hormone replacement therapy on forearm skin elasticity in women

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 945-949

  Sumino, Hiroyuki ^a   Ichikawa, Shuichi ^b   Abe, Masatoshi ^a   Endo, Yukie ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Kurabayashi, Masahiko ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cardiovasc Hosp of Central Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Hormone replacement therapy; Menopause; Skin elasticity; Women

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ELASTICITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; SKIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ELASTICITY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 2942711675     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52262.x     Document Type: Article

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