Sex hormones and carotid atherosclerosis in the metabolic syndrome [1]

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2528-

  Tsuda, Kazushi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLIC GMP; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLISM; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 33644685013     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000190033.63797.78     Document Type: Letter

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