Oral Contraceptives, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Hypertension

Comprehensive Hypertension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 865-882

  Rosenthal, Talma ^a   Oparil, Suzanne ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Center for Aging   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-03961-1.50073-8     Document Type: Chapter

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