Sex Steroids and Bone
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Reinhard Ziegler, Johannes Pfeilschifter, Matthias Bräutigam. offer substantial cardiovascular benefitsbut appear tobe associated withsome increase in the relative risk of breast cancer. The central question of whether andhow progestogens affect these issues is unresolved. The reduction in ischaemic heart disease reported in menopausaloestrogen users isof theorder of 50 %(Bush etal. 1987; Barrett Connor and Bush 1991; Wolfetal.1991), althoughthemagnitude of this effect may ...