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Prothrombotic mutations, family history and the risk of thrombosis in postmenopausal women: implications for hormone replacement therapy.
Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society - 1 Feb 2011
Botto N, Maffei S, Manfredi S, Colombo M G, Mazzone A M, Andreassi M G
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OBJECTIVE: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is acknowledged as the gold standard for the alleviation of climacteric vasomotor symptoms. Prothrombotic genetic variants have been suggested to increase thrombotic risk among HRT users. The aim of the study was to determine whether a positive family...
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