Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: Prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden

British Medical Journal

Volumn 319, Issue 7214, 1999, Pages 890-893

  Rödström, Kerstin ^a   Bengtsson, Calle ^a   Lissner, Lauren ^b   Björkelund, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EDUCATION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0344721481     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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