The heart of the WHI study: Time for hormone therapy policies to be revised

Climacteric

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 267-269

  Pines, Amos ^a   Sturdee, David W ^b   MacLennan, Alastair H ^b   Schneider, Hermann P G ^b   Burger, Henry ^b   Fenton, Anna ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; FRACTURE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART PROTECTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MENOPAUSE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34547181486     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13697130701543783     Document Type: Editorial

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