Effects of menopause and hormone therapy on erythrocyte deformability

Menopause

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-558

  Sakashita, Tomohisa ^a,b   Nobuzane, Takahiro ^a   Miyoshi, Hiroshi ^a   Fujiwara, Hisaya ^a   Kudo, Yoshiki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte deformability.; Estrogen plus progestogen therapy (EPT); Estrogen therapy (ET); Hemorheology; Menopause

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67649884791     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31818c9306     Document Type: Article

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