Effects of antihypertensive therapy on female sexual dysfunction: Clinically meaningful?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1263-1264

  Doumas, Michael ^a   Anyfanti, Panagiota ^a   Lazaridis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ESTRADIOL; FELODIPINE; IRBESARTAN; METOPROLOL;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84861064549     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: 14735598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328352664f     Document Type: Letter

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