Association of sex steroids, gonadotrophins, and their trajectories with clinical cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in elderly men from the Framingham Heart Study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 629-634

  Haring, Robin ^a,b   Teng, Zhaoyang ^c   Xanthakis, Vanessa ^a,c,d   Coviello, Andrea ^a   Sullivan, Lisa ^c   Bhasin, Shalender ^a   Murabito, Joanne M ^a,d   Wallaschofski, Henri ^b   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^a,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84875197078     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12013     Document Type: Article

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