Hormone-replacement therapy – breast versus heart versus bone

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 1638-1639

  Davidson, Nancy E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

BONE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROGESTATIONAL HORMONES; RISK;

EID: 0029071008     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199506153322409     Document Type: Editorial

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