Premenopausal social status and hormone exposure predict postmenopausal atherosclerosis in female monkeys

The relationship between social status a

The relationship between social status and atherosclerosis in male and female monkeys as revealed by meta-analysis

✍ Jay R. Kaplan; Haiying Chen; Stephen B. Manuck 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract More than 25 years ago our laboratory reported sex‐dependent relationships between social status and coronary artery atherosclerosis among cholesterol‐fed cynomolgus monkeys (__Macaca fascicularis__) maintained in social groups of four to six animals each. Dominant males developed more