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Effect of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Stroke in Postmenopausal Women

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2003

Year

Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Susan L. Hendrix, Marian C. Limacher, Gerardo Heiss, Charles Kooperberg, Alison E. Baird, Theodore A. Kotchen, J. David Curb, Henry R. Black, Jacques E. Rossouw,
JAMA

Abstract

Estrogen plus progestin increases the risk of ischemic stroke in generally healthy postmenopausal women. Excess risk for all strokes attributed to estrogen plus progestin appeared to be present in all subgroups of women examined.

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