Hormonally active women tolerate shock-trauma better than do men: A prospective study of over 4000 trauma patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-453

  Deitch, Edwin A ^a   Livingston, David H ^a   Lavery, Robert F ^a   Monaghan, Sean F ^a   Bongu, Advaith ^a   Machiedo, George W ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LACTIC ACID; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOCK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SHOCK; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34548188065     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318148566     Document Type: Article

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