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Ageing, oestrogen, platelets and thrombotic risk.
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Aug 2007
Miller Virginia M, Jayachandran Muthuvel, Owen Whyte G
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1. Adverse thrombotic cardiovascular events increase in women coincident with the onset of menopause. 2. Age past menopause may be an important variable in defining the benefit/risk of hormone treatments. 3. Few studies have examined hormonal status as a variable of ageing using a polygenomic approach of both humoral and cellular components of the coagulation system. 4. Longitudinal studies of a global set of...
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