Prostate cancer risk: The significance of differences in age related changes in serum conjugated and unconjugated steroid hormone concentrations between Arab and Caucasian men

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-44

  Kehinde, E O ^a   Akanji, A O ^a   Memon, A ^a   Bashir, A A ^b   Daar, A S ^c   Al Awadi, K A ^a   Fatinikun, T ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Central Blood Bank ^*  (Kuwait)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Arabs; Caucasians; Epidemiology; Prostate cancer; Race; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARAB; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID METABOLISM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GERMANY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMAN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 33644503621     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-005-3619-1     Document Type: Article

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