There is more to the relation between intraocular pressure and metabolic syndrome than meets the eye: A connection to estrogen deficiency

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 719-720

  Pasquale, Louis R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CONSENSUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 84879966855     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318294096b     Document Type: Editorial

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