title: Hormone replacement therapy: consensus and controversies.
abstract: While the use of menopausal hormone therapy [MHT] when initiated in women younger than 60 years is generally considered to have a good safety profile and to be associated with important treatment and prevention benefits, the length of therapy and the long-term risk benefit profile remains highly controversial.
authors.affiliation: Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US - shoupe@usc.edu.
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authors.lastname: Shoupe
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D032921:Consensus; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D017698:Postmenopause