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Research results from Z.L. Zheng and co-authors update knowledge of obesity

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 25th, 2008

According to a study from Stockholm, Sweden, "An association between female hormones and symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and may be modified by obesity is suggested but not proven. Factors affecting GERD progression, however, are largely unknown."

"At 40 US clinical centers, postmenopausal women with hysterectomy (n = 10,739) were randomly assigned to receive 0.625 mg/d of conjugated equine estrogens or placebo. Women without hysterectomy (n = 16,608) were randomly assigned to receive estrogen plus progestin, given as 0.625 mg conjugated equine estrogens/d plus 2.5 mg medroxyprogesterone acetate/d, or placebo. We performed secondary analyses using...

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