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Does estrogen therapy reduce coronary artery calcification in postmenopausal women?

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boxed-textManson JE et al. for the WHI and WHI-CACS Investigators (2007) Estrogen therapy and coronary-artery calcification. N Engl J Med 356: 2591–2602

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