Sex Hormone–Binding Globulin and the Free Androgen Index Are Related to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Multiethnic Premenopausal and Perimenopausal Women Enrolled in the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN)
- 15 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 111 (10), 1242-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000157697.54255.ce
Abstract
Background— Recent clinical trials have shifted attention away from estrogens and toward androgens and sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG) as potential mediators of increasing cardiovascular (CV) r...Keywords
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