Estrogen replacement therapy and coronary heart disease: a quantitative assessment of the epidemiologic evidence.

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Published in Prev Med on January 01, 1991

Authors

M J Stampfer1, G A Colditz

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1: Channing Laboratory, Boston, MA 02115.

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