Hormone replacement therapy for cognitive function in postmenopausal women

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lethaby, Anne ^a   Hogervorst, E ^b   Richards, M ^b   Yesufu, A ^b   Yaffe, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

*Estrogen replacement therapy; Cognition *drug effects; physiology ; Female; Humans; Postmenopause *physiology ; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; DIENOGEST; DIENOGEST PLUS ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 44949199302     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003122.pub2     Document Type: Review

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