Menopausal hot flush: Is it only a nuisance or also a marker of cardiovascular disease risk?

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 450-454

  Andrikoula, Maria ^a,b   Hardiman, Paul ^c   Prelevic, Gordana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Department of Endocrinology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Hot flush; Menopause

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CHOLESTEROL; CLONIDINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; NORADRENALIN; SEX HORMONE;

AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE MARKER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASODILATATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70350675538     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590902972067     Document Type: Review

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