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Gynecologists and estrogen: an affair of the heart.

Fugh-Berman A, Scialli AR

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Box 571460, Washington, DC 20057-1460, USA. ajf29@georgetown.edu

Although definitive studies have shown that hormone therapy in menopausal women has no overall or cardiovascular health benefit, obstetrician-gynecologists continue to believe that estrogen benefits women's health. This mistaken belief may stem from cultural factors unique to obstetrics and gynecology, as well as from the dependence of physicians on pharmaceutical companies for the provision and interpretation of scientific information.

Published 20 February 2006 in Perspect Biol Med, 49(1): 115-30.
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