Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST YCTUR0x7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In observational studies, estrogen replacement therapy is associated with decreased cardiovascular disease rates and increased breast cancer rates. Recent evidence suggests that the impact of estrogen use on disease outcomes may vary by body mass. In a prospective study of 290,827 postmenopausal US women with no history of cancer or cardiovascular disease at enrollment in 1982, the authors examined the association between postmenopausal estrogen use and all-cause, coronary heart disease, stroke, all-cancer, and breast cancer death rates and whether these associations differed by body mass. After 12 years of follow-up, results from Cox proportional hazards models showed that all-cause death rates were lower among baseline estrogen users than never users (rate ratio (RR)=0.82,95% confidence interval (Cl) : 0.78,0.87). The lowest relative risk was found for coronary heart disease (RR=0.66,95% Cl : 0.58,0.77). The inverse association between estrogen use and coronary heart disease mortality was strongest for thin women (body mass index
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