History of hot flashes and aortic calcification among postmenopausal women

Menopause

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 256-261

  Thurston, Rebecca C ^a,b   Kuller, Lewis H ^b   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^c   Matthews, Karen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 77949409320     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181c1ad3d     Document Type: Article

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