Endocrine Abstracts

Males display an increased level of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than age matched females. Among the genetic factors responsible for the relationship between higher cardiovascular risk and male gender are the sex chromosomes. In this study we investigated the association between serum lipid profile and a polymorphism on the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome in a population of young Caucasian individuals. 1157 young males were recruited form the general...