Impact of oral zinc therapy on the level of sex hormones in male patients on hemodialysis

Renal Failure

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-419

  Jalali, Ghanbarali Raeis ^a   Roozbeh, Jamshid ^a   Mohammadzadeh, Azam ^a   Sharifian, Maryam ^a   Sagheb, Mohammad Mahdi ^a   Jahromi, Alireza Hamidian ^b   Shabani, Sanaz ^a   Ghaffarpasand, Fariborz ^c   Afshariani, Raha ^d  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FASA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Hemodialysis; Male patients; Oral zinc therapy; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROLACTIN; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC;

EID: 77952115814     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08860221003706958     Document Type: Article

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