Serum Sex Hormones in Patients with Coronary Disease and Their Relationship to Known Factors Causing Atherosclerosis

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Serum oestradiol and testosterone levels were measured in 50 men who had had a myocardial infarction 4 months previously, in 30 men with acute infarction and in 30 men with essential hypertension without clinical evidence of renal or cardiovascular damage. The results were compared with those of 34 healthy men serving as controls. Patients had higher oestradiol levels than age-matched controls. There was a relationship between oestradiol levels and body weight in the patients. These results indicate that oestradiol may have a role in the process of the vascular damage.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1982

Publication date (Print): 1982

Publication date (Electronic): 07 November 2008

Volume: 69

Issue: 2

Pages: 98-103

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Department of Internal Medicine B, Zanion Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

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Publisher ID: 173490 Other ID: Cardiology 1982;69:98–103

DOI: 10.1159/000173490

PubMed ID: 7105073

SO-VID: f8710490-b7a2-4270-8557-d113a1bfb921

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Date received : 10 July 1981

Date accepted : 10 December 1981

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Pages: 6

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