What's new about menopause and cardiovascular risk?

Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Matthews, Karen Matthews ^a   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; OVARY CYCLE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 78649604164     PISSN: 15462501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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