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Cholesterol profile in women with premature menopause after risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy.
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2019
Teixeira Natalia, Mourits Marian J, Oosterwijk Jan C, Fakkert Ingrid E, Absalom Anthony R, Bakker Stephan J L, van der Meer Peter, de Bock Geertruida H
Abstract excerpt
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the effect of premenopausal risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) on the cholesterol profile of women at increased ovarian cancer risk and to assess possible effects of age at and time since RRSO. We included 207 women who underwent RRSO before menopausal age (52 years) attending the family cancer clinic of an academic hospital and 828 age-matched women from a...
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