title: [Estrogens: friends or foes?].
abstract: After carrying out several clinical randomized trials at the end of the 90 ties,positive effects of the treatment with estrogens on the cardiovascular system were not confirmed in the woman. The negative effect on mammary cancer was confirmed. In this paper results have been critically analized and data are presented, which confirm the beneficial effects of estrogens at vascular, bone, skin and immune systems.
authors: Jesús A Fernández-Tresguerres
authors: JA
authors: Hernández
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D004967:Estrogens / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004967:Estrogens