Menopause

The timing of hormone replacement therapy could be key to success

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 27th, 2003

The timing of treatment may be a key factor in whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can slow heart vessel disease, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Tufts-New England Medical Center.

"Mounting evidence points to the conclusion that HRT can help prevent heart vessel disease - if the therapy begins around the time that the body stops making its own estrogen," said Thomas B. Clarkson, DVM, of Wake Forest. "The question may not be if estrogen helps, but when is the optimum time to begin therapy."

Clarkson, a professor of comparative medicine, and Richard H. Karas, MD, PhD, director of the preventive...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-03-27)

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