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Hormone Replacement Therapy
Scientists raise caution about effects of HRT on hearing
March 15th, 2004
A small pilot study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggests that women who use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may run the risk of diminished hearing. Depending on the measure, HRT recipients on average performed from 10% to 30% worse on hearing tests than women who had not received HRT, reported Robert D. Frisina, PhD, professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Frisina and colleagues from the International Center for Hearing and Speech Research (ICHSR), an NIH-funded group of scientists from the University of Rochester and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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