Reproductive factors, intima media thickness and carotid plaques in a cross-sectional study of postmenopausal women enrolled in the population-based KORA F4 study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stöckl, Doris ^a,b   Peters, Annette ^a   Thorand, Barbara ^a   Heier, Margit ^a,c   Koenig, Wolfgang ^d   Seissler, Jochen ^e   Thiery, Joachim ^f   Rathmann, Wolfgang ^g   Meisinger, Christa ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Gender studies; Intima media thickness; Reproductive factors; Women

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHILD; CLIMACTERIUM; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; GERMANY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84893162877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-17     Document Type: Article

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