Menopause and post-menopause

Bailliere's Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-340

  Prelevic, G M ^a   Jacobs, H S ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Breast cancer risk; Cardiovascular disease; Hormone replacement therapy; Menopause; Oestrogens; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE MINERAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMACTERIUM; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0030687927     PISSN: 0950351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-351X(97)80317-5     Document Type: Article

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