Male menopause: Just the facts

Clinical Geriatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 28-32

  Tsitouras, Panayiotis D ^a  

^a Kronos Longevity Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FINASTERIDE; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OPIATE; PROGESTERONE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROPAUSE; ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOANDROGENEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE MENOPAUSE; MANOPAUSE; MENOPAUSE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VIROPAUSE;

EID: 80054864685     PISSN: 10951598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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