Stevenson JC

No ORCID on file · 11 papers in corpus · active 1991-2021

Study types

  • article 5
  • rct 2
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 9
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • dyspareunia 1
2021
European heart journal ·doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa1044

Women undergo important changes in sex hormones throughout their lifetime that can impact cardiovascular disease risk. Whereas the traditional cardiovascular risk factors dominate in older age, there are several female-specific risk factors…

2020
Drugs in context ·doi:10.7573/dic.2020-10-1

Optimizing menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) requires an awareness of the benefits and risks associated with the available treatments. This narrative review, which is based on the proceedings of an Advisory Board meeting and supplemented by …

article 2008
Hormone research ·doi:10.1159/000181335

The skeletal effects of two therapies for endometriosis that produce hypo-oestrogenism in 23 premenopausal women have been studied. Eleven women received goserelin 3.6 mg monthly by subcutaneous implant and 12 women received danazol 600 mg …

article 2008
Hormone research ·doi:10.1159/000181334

Plasma lipid risk markers for coronary heart disease (CHD) are influenced by sex steroid concentrations. Therapies that alter sex hormone levels have the potential to affect CHD risk. Zoladex had no effect on plasma lipids, but increased hi…

article 1997
Metabolism: clinical and experimental ·doi:10.1016/s0026-0495(97)90115-3

Elevated serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease if levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) are also high. The biological function of Lp(a) is unknown, but plasma levels may be elevated in inflammat…

rct 1995
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)57779-6

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether treatment of endometriosis with a GnRH analogue (GnRH-a; goserelin) combined with continuous estrogen and progestogen hormone replacement therapy (HRT) would prevent the hypoestrogenic effects, including loss…

review 1995
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics ·doi:10.1016/0020-7292(95)02509-b

Low peak adult bone mass in a premenopausal woman puts her at increased risk for osteoporosis postmenopausally. Episodes of hypo-estrogenism premenopausally are associated with loss of bone density. This is seen with gonadotropin-releasing …

other 1994
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)56473-5

To establish whether there is evidence of low bone density in women with endometriosis, we compared bone density between 48 women with laparoscopically proven endometriosis and 48 age-matched normal controls. Bone density of the lumbar spin…

rct 1993
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)55793-8

OBJECTIVE: To study some of the metabolic effects of oral gestrinone on plasma lipoprotein risk markers for cardiovascular disease and on bone density, a risk marker for osteoporosis. DESIGN: Randomized double-blind study. SETTING: All pa…

article 1992
Atherosclerosis ·doi:10.1016/0021-9150(92)90008-5

Serum levels of lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins were measured in 26 premenopausal women with endometriosis both before and after six months therapy with the anabolic steroid danazol (600 mg/day) and in 15 untreated women who acted …

article 1991
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)54561-0

Whole body lean and fat mass measurements by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry were performed in 14 premenopausal women undergoing danazol treatment for endometriosis. After 6 months, there was a significant increase in lean tissue mass. Bod…