Longitudinal relationships between reproductive hormones and cognitive decline in older men: The concord health and ageing in men project

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2223-2230

  Hsu, Benjumin ^a,b   Cumming, Robert G ^a,b   Waite, Louise M ^b   Blyth, Fiona M ^b   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Le Couteur, David G ^b   Seibel, Markus J ^b   Handelsman, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD; COGNITION; METABOLISM; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84930811539     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2015-1016     Document Type: Article

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