Does hormone therapy improve age-related skin changes in postmenopausal women?. A randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo-controlled multicenter study assessing the effects of norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol in the improvement of mild to moderate age-related skin changes in postmenopausal women

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Phillips, Tania J ^a,c   Symons, James ^b   Menon, Sandeep ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Meditrina Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^c SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DRY SKIN; ELASTICITY; FACE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN STRUCTURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WRINKLE;

EID: 48749092346     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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