The Effects of Tibolone in Older Postmenopausal Women

2008449 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Steven R. Cummings · University of California, San Francisco

Bruce Ettinger · University of California, San Francisco

Pierre D. Delmas · Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Peter Kenemans · University of Amsterdam

V. M. Stathopoulos

Paul E. Verweij · Dutch postgraduate School for Art History

Mirjam Mol-Arts · Dutch postgraduate School for Art History

Abstract

Tibolone reduced the risk of fracture and breast cancer and possibly colon cancer but increased the risk of stroke in older women with osteoporosis. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00519857.)

Topics & Keywords

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 359, Issue 7, pp. 697-708

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0800743

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