Cognitive function in nondemented older women who took estrogen after menopause

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 368-373

  Jacobs, D M ^a   Tang, M X ^a   Stern, Y ^a   Sano, M ^a   Marder, K ^a   Bell, K L ^a   Schofield, P ^a   Dooneief, G ^a   Gurland, B ^a   Mayeux, R ^a  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031911321     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.2.368     Document Type: Article

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