Cigarette Smoking and Levels of Adrenal Androgens in Postmenopausal Women
Authors:
- Sallie TazukeSTSallie Tazuke
- Elizabeth Barrett-ConnorEBElizabeth Barrett-Connor
- 30 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 318 (26) , 1705-1709
Abstract
An antiestrogenic effect of cigarette smoking has been suggested, principally on the basis of data on premenopausal women. We examined the relation between cigarette smoking and endogenous sex-hormone levels in a population of 233 white, postmenopausal women 60 to 79 years of age.Keywords
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