Reproductive factors and serum uric acid levels in females from the general population: The KORA F4 study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Stöckl, Doris ^a,b   Döring, Angela ^a   Thorand, Barbara ^a   Heier, Margit ^a,c   Belcredi, Petra ^a   Meisinger, Christa ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; BLOOD; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; REPRODUCTION; URIC ACID;

EID: 84858119859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032668     Document Type: Article

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