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Estrogen has shown beneficial effects on kidney function in animal models and in some human studies. We evaluated premenopausal women who had their ovaries removed before the age of 50 and found they had an increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease as compared to women who had their ovaries intact.
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This page is a summary of: CKD in Patients with Bilateral Oophorectomy, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, September 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.03990318.
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