Effect of hormone therapy on exercise capacity in early postmenopausal women

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 780-787

  Mercuro, Giuseppe ^a   Saiu, Francesca ^b   Deidda, Martino ^b   Mercuro, Silvia ^b   Vitale, Cristiana ^b   Rosano, Giuseppe M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTONIC EXERCISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; VASODILATATION; WORKLOAD;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; VASODILATION;

EID: 34848844369     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000281244.54931.65     Document Type: Article

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