Birth weight and early socio-economic disadvantage as predictors of sex hormones and sex hormone binding globulin in men at age 49-51 years

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-189

  Pearce, Mark S ^a   Groom, Alix ^a   Relton, Caroline L ^a   Peaston, Robert T ^b   Pollard, Tessa M ^c   Francis, Roger M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; BODY MASS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; ENGLAND; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79851473222     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21099     Document Type: Article

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