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Estrogen therapy and thrombotic risk.
Pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Sept 2006
Miller Virginia M, Jayachandran Muthuvel, Heit John A, Owen Whyte G
Abstract excerpt
Post-menopausal hormone therapy increases the risk for venous thrombosis, and possibly myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic stroke. However, most women using hormone therapy do not suffer thrombosis, and to date our ability to identify women at risk is limited. Thrombosis, arterial or venous, has 2 requisites: a vascular anomaly and a response of the hemostasis system to the anomaly. Consequently, experimental...
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