Hormone Replacement Therapy
Studies explore women's HRT knowledge and behavior post-WHI findings
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 25th, 2003
The WHI study found that an estrogen-progestin HT product increased the risk of heart attack, stroke, blood clots, breast cancer, gallbladder disease, and dementia.
Between January and March 2003, about 6 months after publication of the initial WHI study results, researchers at Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and the University of California, San Francisco, surveyed 670 women, ages 50 to 69,...
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