Postmenopausal estrogen use and Parkinson's disease with and without dementia

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1141-1143

  Marder, K ^a,b   Tang, M X ^a,c   Alfaro, B ^a,b   Mejia, H ^a,b   Cote, L ^a,b   Jacobs, D ^a,b   Stern, Y ^a,b   Sano, M ^a,b   Mayeux, R ^a,b,c  

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

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031921363     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.4.1141     Document Type: Article

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