Risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy
July 1997
An important study sheds new light on the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
It shows that estrogen use reduces the risk of dying by about 40%...mainly by decreasing death from heart disease.
But this benefit declines with long-term use...because of a gradual increase in the risk of dying from breast cancer.
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