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Hormone Replacement Therapy
Risks of HRT could have been revealed much earlier
March 15th, 2004
The risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) would have been revealed much earlier if better use had been made of existing evidence. As such, women have been needlessly exposed to an increased risk of heart disease, argue researchers in the February 26, 2004, issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The large U.S. Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial was stopped prematurely in 2002 after showing an increased risk of cardiovascular events from combined hormone replacement therapy. Well before the WHI trial was published, however, Klim McPherson, visiting professor in public health epidemiology at Nuffield Department of...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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