estrogen helps prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal women
September 1998
New evidence suggests that estrogen helps prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal women.
This is a surprise. Researchers were looking to see if estrogen was harmful for women with diabetes...instead they found out that estrogen actually helps.
Postmenopausal women who take estrogen seem to have almost a five-fold lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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