Why women have less heart disease than men and how diabetes modifies women's usual cardiac protection: A 40-year rancho bernardo cohort study

Global Heart

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-104

  Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC OBESITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SILENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SMOKING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84880922155     PISSN: 22118160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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