Hormone Replacement Therapy (Ocular)

Another Kudo for HRT: Estrogen Benefits The Eyes

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 7th, 1997

While estrogen's ability to prevent bone loss and heart disease in postmenopausal women is established, here's something new: estrogen may benefit the eyes.

A study in the June 1997 issue of Ophthalmology found a reduced incidence of lens opacities, precursors of age-related cataract, in postmenopausal women taking estrogen.

Although hardening and clouding of the eye's lens occur normally with age, a cataract is characterized by excessive lens opacity. One of the leading causes of blindness in the United States, age-related cataract affects approximately 13 million Americans age 40 and older. Scientists have long suspected that hormones may play a...

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