Associations of postmenopausal estrogen use with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in older women. The CHS Collaborative Research Group.

Abstract

Postmenopausal estrogen use in this sample of older women was associated with favorable cardiovascular disease risk factor profiles and with lower measures of subclinical disease. These findings suggest that postmenopausal estrogen use may be associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease in women well into the eighth decade of life.