Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Data on the role of endogenous sex steroids in cerebrovascular disease is sparse. Our aim was to investigate the clinical relevance of circulating sex steroids in a postmenopausal acute stroke population and search for associations with disease severity and short-term outcome.Patients and methods: We prospectively studied 302 postmenopausal female patients hospitalized for an acute stroke in two tertiary hospitals, during a time period of 2...