This is a high-level clinical research text updating current knowledge about the documented effects of sex steroids on the cardiovascular system. It contains nineteen chapters covering the full range of oral contraceptive issues of greatest concern to today's practitioners and researchers in gynecology, obstetrics, reproductive medicine, cardiology, and clinical pharmacology. Key contributions contain the very latest information about the relationship between oral contraceptives and coronary heart disease, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), effects of oral contraceptives on lipid metabolism and carbohydrate metabolism, adverse effects of estrogen treatment, and the relationships between oral contraceptives and hemostasis and breast cancer. Includes detailed bibliographic references and a thorough index.
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Although the development of the sexual attributes of the female depends on the steroid hormones produced by the ovary - C18 estrogenic steroids, C21 progestogenic steroids and C19 androgenic steroids - their vascular effects may exert a far greater influence on female activity and longevity than any other action of these hormones. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physiological substitution, human vascular cells, forearm flow, ethinyl group, ovariectomized controls, estradiol metabolites, transdermal estradiol, oral estradiol, estradiol therapy, norethisterone acetate, different progestogens, conjugated equine estrogens, vascular effects, forearm blood flow, vascular activity, natural estrogens, coronary artery atherosclerosis, women taking oral contraceptives, estrogen metabolites, estrogen users, estradiol valerate, atherosclerotic coronary arteries, hemostatic system, prostacyclin synthesis, soya protein Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Although the development of the sexual attributes of the female depends on the steroid hormones produced by the ovary - C18 estrogenic steroids, C21 progestogenic steroids and C19 androgenic steroids - their vascular effects may exert a far greater influence on female activity and longevity than any other action of these hormones. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physiological substitution, human vascular cells, forearm flow, ethinyl group, ovariectomized controls, estradiol metabolites, transdermal estradiol, oral estradiol, estradiol therapy, norethisterone acetate, different progestogens, conjugated equine estrogens, vascular effects, forearm blood flow, vascular activity, natural estrogens, coronary artery atherosclerosis, women taking oral contraceptives, estrogen metabolites, estrogen users, estradiol valerate, atherosclerotic coronary arteries, hemostatic system, prostacyclin synthesis, soya protein Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Parthenon Publishing, Professor Lippert, Authors Year, Discussion Asked, Discussion Replying, Outcome Odds, Van Orden, Vander Zwaag, Wald Myers New!
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- The Pineal Gland (Comprehensive Endocrinology, Revised Series) by Russel J. Reiter on page 72
- Headache and Other Head Pain by Harold G. Wolff on page 167
- Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY (BECKMAN)) by Charles R.B. Beckmann in Front Matter
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