Does hormone replacement therapy inhibit coronary artery calcification?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 989-992

  Shemesh, Joseph ^a   Frenkel, Yair ^b   Leibovitch, Liviu ^b   Grossman, Ehud ^b   Pines, Amos ^b   Motro, Michael ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALCINOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030941753     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00143-9     Document Type: Article

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