Menopause: New therapies

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 634-637

  Davis, Susan R ^a  

^a Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL PLUS NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; NORETHISTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PLACEBO; RALOXIFENE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; STEROID; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TIBOLONE;

BONE ATROPHY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TENDERNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MASTALGIA; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OSTEOLYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PROTECTION; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE SECTION; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

EID: 0037590633     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05391.x     Document Type: Review

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