Menopause status as the main factor explaining the gender differences of serum nitric oxide concentrations in middle-aged population

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-163

  Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani ^a   Behboudi Gandevani, Samira ^a   Ghasemi, Asghar ^b   Azizi, Fereidoun ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gender; Menopausal status; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NITRIC OXIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONFERRONI CORRECTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OBESITY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANK SUM TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WRIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84930246273     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-014-3338-x     Document Type: Article

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