Estrogen - No matter how delivered - relieves postmenopausal vasomotor symptoms

Menopause

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 494-496

  Bachmann, Gloria ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FLUOXETINE; GESTAGEN; LOFEXIDINE; METHYLDOPA; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN; VENLAFAXINE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANGELICA SINENSIS; BREAST CANCER; CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDITORIAL; GINSENG; HERBAL MEDICINE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM; WOMEN;

EID: 2342592710     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000094541.07420.7C     Document Type: Editorial

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