Total testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin are significantly associated with metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and elderly men

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 407-412

  Chin, K Y ^a   Ima Nirwana, S ^a   Mohamed, I N ^a   Aminuddin, A ^a   Ngah, W Z W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

men; metabolic syndrome; sex hormone binding globulin; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALAYSIA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84880070226     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1345164     Document Type: Article

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