HORMONES REDUX
U.S. News & World Report - Sept. 2003
-- JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"This was one of the most dramatic sea changes that has ever occurred in clinical medicine."
Two new HRT studies were released last week that add more information to the hormone conundrum. This comes a year after women learned that the hormones they had been taking for unpleasant menopausal symptoms were dangerous, perhaps life-threatening. A clinical trial of hormone replacement therapy was being halted prematurely because researchers concluded that the combination HRT pill used in the trial caused more problems than it prevented. The most recent studies restate and broaden the study's earlier results that show the drug to relieve menopause symptoms. Two other studies show that the type of hormones women use may be critical to their risks of cancer and blood clots.
The latest on drug therapy for menopausal symptoms continues to muddy the picture:
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