Can premenstrual syndrome affect arterial stiffness or blood pressure?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-176

  Stamatelopoulos, Kimon S ^a   Georgiopoulos, Georgios ^a   Papaioannou, Theodore ^a   Lambrinoudaki, Irene ^a   Kouzoupis, Anastasios ^b   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Georgiou, Stylianos P ^a   Manios, Efstathios ^a   Alevizaki, Maria ^a   Papamichael, Christos M ^a   Sfikakis, Petros P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Hypertension; Premenstrual syndrome; Risk factors; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84865350448     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.05.037     Document Type: Article

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