Cigarette Smoking Decreases the Genital Vascularization in Young Healthy, Eumenorrheic Women

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1717-1725

  Battaglia, Cesare ^a   Battaglia, Bruno ^a   Mancini, Fulvia ^b   Persico, Nicola ^c   Nappi, Rossella E ^d   Paradisi, Roberto ^a   Venturoli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI DEXEUS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clitoris; Doppler; Genital Blood Flow; Labia Minora; Smoking; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRANSLABIAL ULTRASOUND; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 79957919529     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02257.x     Document Type: Article

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