The prevalence of low sex steroid hormone concentrations in men in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-239

  Rohrmann, Sabine ^a   Platz, Elizabeth A ^b,c,d   Selvin, Elizabeth ^b,e   Shiels, Meredith S ^b   Joshu, Corinne E ^b   Menke, Andy ^b,e   Feinleib, Manning ^b   Basaria, Shehzad ^f   Rifai, Nader ^g   Dobs, Adrian S ^c,h   Kanarek, Norma ^b,c   Nelson, William G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960153969     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04043.x     Document Type: Review

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