Relation of circulating estrogens with hair relaxer and skin lightener use among postmenopausal women in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Hair relaxers and skin lighteners have been commonly used by African women, with suggestions that they may have hormonal activity. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship of hair relaxer and skin lightener use to serum estrogen/estrogen metabolite levels. METHODS: We utilized the pos...

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Autores principales: Geczik, Ashley M., Falk, Roni T., Xu, Xia, Wiafe-Addai, Beatrice, Yarney, Joel, Awuah, Baffour, Biritwum, Richard, Vanderpuye, Verna, Dedey, Florence, Adjei, Ernest, Aitpillah, Francis, Osei-Bonsu, Ernest, Oppong, Joseph, Titiloye, Nicholas, Edusei, Lawrence, Nyarko, Kofi, Clegg-Lamptey, Joe-Nat, Wiafe, Seth, Ansong, Daniel, Ahearn, Thomas U., Figueroa, Jonine, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Brinton, Louise A., Trabert, Britton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9256865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34992224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00407-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9256865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34992224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00407-4

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