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ArticleCirculation. Population health and outcomes2026

Is Menopause a Driver of Cardiovascular Disease?

C Noel Bairey Merz

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Article in Circulation. Population health and outcomes, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

C Noel Bairey MerzBarbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.ORCID 0000-0002-9933-5155

Funding

ZONA-FREE HAMSTER OVA ASSAY AS AN INDICATOR OF MALE FERTILITYM01RR000425 · NCRR · LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER · PI ANDERSON, GAIL V · 1985 to 2011
$74.2M
The Microvascular Aging and Eicosanoids - Women's Evaluation of Systemic Aging Tenacity (MAE-WEST) ("You are never too old to become younger!") Specialized Center for Research Excellence (SCORE)U54AG065141 · NIA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI BAIREY MERZ, CATHLEEN NOEL, CHENG, SUSAN · 2020 to 2024
$8.7M
The Microvascular Aging Effects - Women's Evaluation of Systemic aging Tenacity in Heart, Brain and Frailty (MAE-WEST HBF) ("You are never too old to become younger!")U54AG094168 · NIA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI Cathleen Noel Bairey Merz · 2025 to 2026
$4.5M
Reproductive Hormones and Pre-Clinical CVD in WomenR01HL073108 · NHLBI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI BAIREY MERZ, C. NOEL · 2003 to 2004
$306k
NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR000425NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL073108NIA NIH HHS U54 AG065141NIA NIH HHS U54 AG094168
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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cardiovascular diseasemenopausemenopause hormone therapy

Identifiers

PMID42596880
PMCPMC13496002

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