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HT and CVD prevention: from myth to reality

Nanette K Wenger, M.D.aCorresponding Author Informationemail address

Abstract 

Menopausal hormone therapy has no evidence-based role for the primary or secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Coronary prevention should involve lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions documented as beneficial in randomized clinical trials and promulgated in national guidelines.

a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology),Emory University School of Medicine; Chief of Cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital; Consultant, Emory Heart & Vascular Center, Atlanta, GA, USA

Corresponding Author InformationNanette K. Wenger, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, SE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

 What the studies show, in a nutshell

The impact on coronary prevention

Alternative solutions

PII: S1546-2501(04)00019-2

doi:10.1016/j.sram.2004.02.018


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