Delivery may affect arterial elasticity in women

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 750-754

  Hashimoto, Masayoshi ^a   Miyamoto, Yoshitomo ^a   Iwai, Chikao ^a   Matsuda, Yasuaki ^a   Hiraoka, Eiji ^a   Kanazawa, Kenji ^a   Nishimura, Kunihiro ^a   Sugiyama, Daisuke ^a   Ito, Kazuo ^b   Yamori, Yukio ^b   Akita, Hozuka ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Health Service Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Delivery; Estrogen; Pregnancy; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PULSE WAVE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 65649143829     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0441     Document Type: Article

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