Correlation of leptin and sex hormones with endocrine changes in healthy Saudi women of different body weights

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-115

  Al Harithy, Rowyda N ^a   Al Doghaither, Huda ^a   Abualnaja, Khalid ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAMPLING; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 33646783663     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2006.110     Document Type: Article

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