Cardiovascular disease risk factors in menopausal Jamaican black women after hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy: an observational study.

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Published in West Indian Med J on December 01, 2010

Authors

H M Fletcher1, F Bennett, D Simms-Stewart, M Reid, N P Williams, G H Wharfe, R J Wilks, S Mitchell, P Scott

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies. horace.fletcher@uwimona.edu.jm

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