Endogenous testosterone and its relationship to preclinical and clinical measures of cardiovascular disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1602-1608

  Srinath, Reshmi ^a   Golden, Sherita Hill ^a   Carson, Kathryn A ^b   Dobs, Adrian ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGED; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84927614081     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-3934     Document Type: Article

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