Hormone therapy for younger women may not increase CHD risk during 5 to 7 years of follow-up, but stroke risk was increased independent of age

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Robert L Reid. ACP J Club. 2007 Sep-Oct.

. 2007 Sep-Oct;147(2):29.

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