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June 17, 2004 |
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Menopause Making the HRT Decision The last five years have seen an explosion in the amount of research on hormone replacement therapy. And, not surprisingly, much of this research has found that not only are some of the supposed benefits of HRT non-existent, but that HRT may actually be harmful. For instance, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000 concluded that women who took the combined treatment (estrogen and progestin) for five years were 40 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women taking estrogen alone or no hormones. Yet the addition of progesterone or a synthetic progestin is necessary to protect against the increased risk of uterine cancer supplemental estrogen brings. Other studies have found that HRT, once thought to protect women from cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, etc.), may even increase a woman’s risk of suffering from a cardiovascular problem, at least within the first few years of use.
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