Mackenzie, IS;
Macdonald, TM;
Thompson, A;
Morant, S;
Wei, L;
(2012)
Spironolactone and risk of incident breast cancer in women older than 55 years: retrospective, matched cohort study.
BMJ
, 345
(7868)
, Article e4447. 10.1136/bmj.e4447.
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Abstract
To investigate whether exposure to spironolactone treatment affects the risk of incident breast cancer in women over 55 years of age.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Spironolactone and risk of incident breast cancer in women older than 55 years: retrospective, matched cohort study. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.e4447 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e4447 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | PMCID: PMC3396460 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode. |
| Keywords: | Animals, Breast Neoplasms, Diuretics, Family Practice, Female, Great Britain, Heart Failure, Humans, Hypertension, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Postmenopause, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Propensity Score, Proportional Hazards Models, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Rodentia, Spironolactone |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Practice and Policy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1367217 |
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