Serum testosterone and short-term mortality in men with acute myocardial infarction

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-253

  Militaru, Constantin ^a   Donoiu, Ionut ^b   Dracea, Ovidiu ^a   Ionescu, Dan Dominic ^b  

^a Craiova Cardiology Center   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76); TESTOSTERONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOWN-REGULATION; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROMANIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953328554     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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