Estrogen and cognitive aging in women

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 527-534

  Sherwin, Barbara B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; PLACEBO; RALOXIFENE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEMORY DISORDER; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS;

EID: 0036843297     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-6147(02)02093-X     Document Type: Review

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