Hormone-replacement therapy: Current thinking

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 220-231

  Lobo, Roger A ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SYMPTOM; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84990948156     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.164     Document Type: Review

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