Understanding why women won't take HRT

Contemporary Ob-Gyn

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Rabin, Douglas S ^a  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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