Reliability of follicle-stimulating hormone measurements in serum

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Arslan, Alan A ^a   Zeleniuch Jacquotte, Anne ^a   Lukanova, Annekatrin ^b   Rinaldi, Sabina ^b   Kaaks, Rudolf ^b   Toniolo, Paolo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BLOOD; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4344615413     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-49     Document Type: Article

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