Riesgos y beneficios para la salud 3 años después de suspender el tratamiento aleatorizado con estrógeno y progestina

Gerardo Heiss1, Robert Wallace, Garnet L Anderson

  • 1University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3628, USA. gerardo_heiss@unc.edu

JAMA
|March 6, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

La terapia hormonal con estrógeno más progestina no mostró un aumento en el riesgo cardiovascular después de detener la intervención. Sin embargo, condujo a un mayor riesgo de malignidades y a un aumento general de los riesgos en comparación con el placebo.

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