title: Pulmonary hypertension: a woman's disease.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. safdar@bcm.edu
authors.forename: Zeenat
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Safdar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D062186:Arterial Pressure; D004958:Estradiol / Q000378:metabolism; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D065627:Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D016387:Women's Health
chemical_list: D004958:Estradiol
keywords: Endothelins/genetics; estradiol; hypertension, pulmonary/physio-pathology; response elements/genetics; sex factors
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