The effect of low-dose combined oral contraceptive pills on brachial artery endothelial function and common carotid artery intima-media thickness

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 675-680

  Heidarzadeh, Zeinab ^a,b   Asadi, Bahador ^c   Saadatnia, Mohammad ^d   Ghorbani, Askar ^a,b   Fatehi, Farzad ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid intima media thickness; Contraceptives; endothelial function; flow mediated dilatation; oral; thrombogenesis

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL; LEVONORGESTREL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DILATATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CONTRACEPTIVES; ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; FLOW-MEDIATED DILATATION; ORAL; THROMBOGENESIS;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, COMBINED; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVONORGESTREL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897483038     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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