Potential importance of early initiation of hormone therapy for cognitive benefit

Menopause

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-7

  Maki, Pauline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; STEROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MACACA; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; COGNITION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646005802     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000194822.76774.30     Document Type: Editorial

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