Endogenous sex hormones and their associations with cardiovascular risk factors in post-menopausal women

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 588-592

  Guducu N ^a   Gormus U ^a   Kutay, S S ^b   Kavak, Z N ^c   Telatar, B ^a  

^a ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery ^*  (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; CRP; Endogenous sex hormones; Interleukin 6; Postmenopausal women

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POSTMENOPAUSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERLEUKIN-6; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84885586371     PISSN: 03914097     EISSN: 17208386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3275/8881     Document Type: Article

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