Effect of estrogen plus progestin on stroke in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative: a randomized trial.

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Published in JAMA on May 28, 2003

Authors

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller1, Susan L Hendrix, Marian Limacher, Gerardo Heiss, Charles Kooperberg, Alison Baird, Theodore Kotchen, J David Curb, Henry Black, Jacques E Rossouw, Aaron Aragaki, Monika Safford, Evan Stein, Somchai Laowattana, W Jerry Mysiw, WHI Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. smoller@aecom.yu.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Women's Health Initiative (WHI) | NCT00000611

Effects of a Tissue Selective Estrogen Complex (TSEC) on Depression and the Neural Reward System in the Perimenopause" (Duavee) | NCT03740009

Characterizing the Neural Substrates of Irritability in Women: an Experimental Neuroendocrine Model | NCT04051320

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