Cardiovascular risk and early menopause: Cause or consequence?

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1067-1069

  Stuenkel, Cynthia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; OVARIECTOMY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

CORONARY DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE; STROKE;

EID: 84866911168     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31826883f6     Document Type: Review

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