ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2005
Smoking as a determinant for plasma levels of testosterone, androstenedione, and DHEAs in postmenopausal women.
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- No Relevant Associations Between Markers of Smoking Behaviour and Plasma Progesterone Concentrations: Findings From a Sex-Stratified Cohort Study.Addiction biology · 2025Article
- Steroid hormone levels vary with sex, aging, lifestyle, and genetics.Science advances · 2025Article
- Associations between smoking, sex steroid hormones, trouble sleeping, and depression among U.S. adults: a cross-sectional study from NHANES (2013-2016).BMC public health · 2024Article
- Testosterone and depressive symptoms during the late menopause transition.Biology of sex differences · 2021Article
- Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Strongly Associated with Smoking Status and Is Improved by Smoking Cessation in Japanese Males: A Retrospective Study.The Kobe journal of medical sciences · 2020Article
- Smoking Across the Menopausal Transition in a 10-Year Longitudinal Sample: The Role of Sex Hormones and Depressive Symptoms.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Current smoking is associated with a larger waist circumference and a more androgenic profile in young healthy women from high-risk breast cancer families.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2018Article
- Association between smoking and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2018Article
- Prenatal testosterone induces sex-specific dysfunction in endothelium-dependent relaxation pathways in adult male and female rats.Biology of reproduction · 2013Article
- Determinants of maternal sex steroids during the first half of pregnancy.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2011Article
- Circulating sex hormones and breast cancer risk factors in postmenopausal women: reanalysis of 13 studies.British journal of cancer · 2011Article
- Impact of cigarette smoking on onset of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease over a 10-year period.Journal of gastroenterology · 2011Article
- The association of plasma androgen levels with breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer risk factors among postmenopausal women.International journal of cancer · 2010Article
- Cigarette smoking, androgen levels, and hot flushes in midlife women.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2008Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether current smoking, ex-smoking, or amount of current smoking among postmenopausal women was associated with plasma levels of testosterone, and rostenedione, and DHEAs. About 65,000 women in Sweden have participated in two population-based prospective cohort studies where blood samples were collected at baseline, and information on life-style, reproductive history and anthropometrical measurements were available. The present study was based on 407 control subjects from a previous nested case-control study on the relation between steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer. A multivariate logistic regression analysis, adjusted for potential confounders, was used in order to obtain odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals. There was a high risk of high testosterone levels (above the median) in current vs. never smokers, OR: 1.85 (1.06-3.23). Risk of high testosterone levels increased by amount of daily smoking (increments of 10 cigarettes/day), OR: 1.55 (1.02-2.37). Ex-smoking was associated with high testosterone levels, OR: 1.56 (0.98-2.47). Current smoking and increasing amount of current smoking were weakly associated with high androstenedione levels. However, these associations did not reach statistical significance. No association was seen between smoking habits and DHEAs levels. We conclude that current smoking, and increasing amount of daily smoking, is associated with high testosterone levels.
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