Arterial stiffness and related variables across menopausal status: An epidemiologic study

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Casiglia, Edoardo ^a   Tikhonoff, Valérie ^a   Boschetti, Giovanni ^a   Giordano, Nunzia ^a   Mazza, Alberto ^b   Caffi, Sandro ^c   Palatini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Rovigo   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPLANATION TONOMETER; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TONOMETRY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84872295064     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2012.3666     Document Type: Article

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