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Mortality from cardio-vascular disease before the 50th year of age is many times higher among men than women. It has therefore been suggested that female ovarian hormones, e.g. estrogens, might have some protective effect against this disease.. This hypothesis is still a question of debate and arguments in favour and against it are readily available. However, it has been clearly shown by the Veterans’ Administration Drug Lipid Cooperative Study that long-term treatment with conjugated estrogens has no appreciable effect on the plasma cholesterol levels of men with a history of myocardial infarction.
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Larsson-Cohn, U. (1976). Lipids and Estrogens. In: van Keep, P.A., Greenblatt, R.B., Albeaux-Fernet, M. (eds) Consensus on Menopause Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7179-3_12
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