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Title: The Last Word On Hormone Therapy From the Women's Health Initiative
Post by: DriftingCrow on October 05, 2013, 01:56:17 PM
Post by: DriftingCrow on October 05, 2013, 01:56:17 PM
The Last Word On Hormone Therapy From the Women's Health Initiative
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/04/229171477/the-last-word-on-hormone-therapy-from-the-womens-health-initiative?sc=tw
Author: Nancy Shutt Source: NPR News
This week, the Women's Health Initiative published a final comprehensive report on its long, broad and deep look at women and HRT. The study, which was published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, monitored the health of 27,347 postmenopausal women while they were in the two HRT randomized trials and in the years after. It sums up results that have been published piecemeal in more than 100 articles.
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You know, there's such an irony to the saga of hormone replacement therapy. The pendulum has swung so widely, from "hormone therapy is good for all women" to "it's bad for all women" to now somewhere in between.
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While the study was on cis-women, I thought it might be of interest to some of our members here.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/04/229171477/the-last-word-on-hormone-therapy-from-the-womens-health-initiative?sc=tw
Author: Nancy Shutt Source: NPR News
This week, the Women's Health Initiative published a final comprehensive report on its long, broad and deep look at women and HRT. The study, which was published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, monitored the health of 27,347 postmenopausal women while they were in the two HRT randomized trials and in the years after. It sums up results that have been published piecemeal in more than 100 articles.
[. . . ]
You know, there's such an irony to the saga of hormone replacement therapy. The pendulum has swung so widely, from "hormone therapy is good for all women" to "it's bad for all women" to now somewhere in between.
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While the study was on cis-women, I thought it might be of interest to some of our members here.