new thinking on which women should take hormone replacement therapy
August 2001
There's new thinking on which women should take hormone replacement therapy...and for how long.
We used to think that long-term HRT was beneficial for most postmenopausal women because it lowered the risk of heart disease.
Early studies suggested that HRT reduced the risk by 35% to 50%.
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