Why do women doctors in the UK take hormone replacement therapy?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-377

  Isaacs, A J ^a   Britton, A R ^a   McPherson, Klim ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0030862092     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.4.373     Document Type: Article

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