Cardiovascular risk factors have larger impact on endothelial function in self-reported healthy women than men in the HUNT3 fitness study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Skaug, Eli Anne ^a   Madssen, Erik ^a,b   Aspenes, Stian Thoresen ^a   Wisløff, Ulrik ^a   Ellingsen, Øyvind ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FITNESS; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION; VERY ELDERLY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84903762685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101371     Document Type: Article

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