TY - JOUR
T1 - Menopause and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women
AU - Mohle-Boetani, Janet
AU - Whittemore, Alice
AU - Colditz, Graham A.
AU - Willett, Walter C.
AU - Stampfer, Meir J.
AU - Rosner, Bernard
AU - Speizer, Frank E.
AU - Hennekens, Charles H.
PY - 1987/10/22
Y1 - 1987/10/22
N2 - To the Editor: The study by Colditz et al. (April 30 issue)* relating type of menopause and postmenopausal estrogen use to the risk of coronary heart disease addresses an important question with a potential effect on many women. The authors report that women who had undergone bilateral oophorectomy without subsequent estrogen replacement had an increased risk relative to premenopausal women of the same age, but that women who had had a natural menopause without estrogen replacement had no such elevated risk. Further analysis and more data are needed however, before natural menopause can be excluded as a determinant of the…
AB - To the Editor: The study by Colditz et al. (April 30 issue)* relating type of menopause and postmenopausal estrogen use to the risk of coronary heart disease addresses an important question with a potential effect on many women. The authors report that women who had undergone bilateral oophorectomy without subsequent estrogen replacement had an increased risk relative to premenopausal women of the same age, but that women who had had a natural menopause without estrogen replacement had no such elevated risk. Further analysis and more data are needed however, before natural menopause can be excluded as a determinant of the…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198710223171713
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198710223171713
M3 - Letter
C2 - 3657875
AN - SCOPUS:0023253049
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 317
SP - 1094
EP - 1095
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 17
ER -