Effect of combined hormonal contraceptives on the vascular endothelium und new cardiovascular risk parameters;Effekt hormonaler kontrazeptiva auf das endothel und neue kardiovaskuläre risikoparameter

Therapeutische Umschau

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-92

  Merki Feld, Gabriele Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ENDOTHELIN; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ETONOGESTREL; GESTAGEN; HOMOCYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART PERFUSION; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, COMBINED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 59849087739     PISSN: 00405930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930.66.2.89     Document Type: Review

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