Estrogen may offer some heart benefits

[Wendy]

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June 20, 2007, 6:21PM
Estrogen may offer some heart benefits

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain younger women who start taking them in their 50s. Women who took estrogen suffered less hardening of the arteries than those who took dummy pills, researchers reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine....

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[LostInTime]

Thank you for a wonderful post.

Here's another one I found on the same subject.

New Study Finds Estrogen Replacement Therapy Safe For Most Women
June 20, 2007 8:48 p.m. EST
Nidhi Sharma - AHN News Writer

Estrogens are a group of steroid compounds, named for their importance in the estrous cycle, and functioning as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are used as part of some oral contraceptives, in estrogen replacement therapy of postmenopausal women, and in hormone therapy for transsexual women.