A cross-sectional study of different patterns of oral contraceptive use among premenopausal women and circulating IGF-1: implications for disease risk

BACKGROUND: Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is important in normal growth, development, and homeostasis. Current use of oral contraceptives (OC) decreases IGF-1 concentrations; however, the effect of past use, age/timing of use, and type of OC used on IGF-1 levels is unknown. OC are the most co...

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Autores principales: Blackmore, Kristina M, Wong, Jody, Knight, Julia A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21599947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-11-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21599947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-11-15

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