Changes over 14 Years in Androgenicity and Body Mass Index in a Biracial Cohort of Reproductive-Age Women
Author(s) -
Barbara Sternfeld,
Kiang Liu,
Charles P. Quesenberry,
Hua Wang,
SHENG-FANG JIANG,
Martha L. Daviglus,
Myriam Fornage,
Cora E. Lewis,
John D. Mahan,
Pamela J. Schreiner,
Stephen M. Schwartz,
Stephen Sidney,
O. Dale Williams,
David S. Siscovick
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2007-2203
Subject(s) - waist , sex hormone binding globulin , body mass index , endocrinology , medicine , androgen , free androgen index , testosterone (patch) , obesity , cohort , circumference , hormone , geometry , mathematics
Body mass index (BMI) is directly related to testosterone (total T and free T) and inversely to SHBG cross-sectionally, but little is known about how changes in body fat and androgen markers affect each other over time.
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