Are hot flashes linked to cardiovascular risk? It is too early to tell

Menopause

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-444

  Gorodeski, Eiran Z ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DILATATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLIMACTERIUM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; VAGUS TONE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77952257253     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181d0edaa     Document Type: Editorial

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