Improved Cardiac Glucose Uptake: A Potential Mechanism for Estrogens to Prevent the Development of Cardiac Hypertrophy

The incidence of cardiovascular diseases including cardiac hypertrophy and failure in pre-menopausal women is lower compared to age-matched men but the risk of heart disease increases substantially after the onset of menopause. It has been postulated that female sex hormones play an important role i...

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Main Author: Govindaraj, Vijayakumar
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2919
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-35911
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-35911
https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/2919/Vijay_Thesis_oL.pdf