title: [Role of androgen in the elderly. Cardiovascular disease and androgen].
abstract: Hypercholesterolemia, which is well known one of the important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is more prevalence in women than men. However, cardiovascular disease is more prevalence in men than women. It is possible that men have more frequently hypertension and glucose intolerance than women. These may affect the sex difference in the cardiovascular disease prevalence quite a few. The feature of risk factors for cardiovascular disease may be affected by both sex hormone and sex related genes. To clarify the role of sex hormone and sex related genes in the risk factor for atherosclerosis will be very important to reduce the atherosclerosis developments in human.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawano
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000728:Androgens / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism; D012307:Risk Factors; D012727:Sex Characteristics
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens