POSTMENOPAUSAL ESTROGEN AND PREVENTION BIAS

被引:339
作者
BARRETTCONNOR, E
机构
[1] Dept. of Community/Family Med., University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093-0607
关键词
ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LIPOPROTEINS; HDL CHOLESTEROL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY);
D O I
10.7326/0003-4819-115-6-455
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
A mailed health survey questionnaire was returned by 1008 of 1057 (95%) previously studied older women from Rancho Bernardo, a socioeconomiclaly upper-middle-class California community where replacement estrogen use was known to be common. Women currently using estrogen had significantly healthier behaviors and more preventive services by physicians (recent cholesterol check, rectal examination, papanicolaou smear, and mammogram) than nonusers. These differences may explain some of the benefits and risks currently attributed to hormone replacement therapy.
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