Unraveling the associations of age and menopause with cardiovascular risk factors in a large population-based study

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• 作者：A. C. de Kat ; V. Dam ; N. C. Onland-Moret ; M. J. C. Eijkemans…
• 关键词：Menopause ; Cardiovascular risk ; Female aging
• 刊名：BMC Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1319KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1741-7015
• 卷排序：15

文摘

BackgroundAlthough the association between menopause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk has been studied extensively, the simultaneous role of chronological aging herein remains underexposed. This study aims to disentangle the relationships of menopausal status and chronological aging with CVD risk factors in the largest study population to date.