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Asthma
Estrogen, SERMS reduce asthma impact by halting constriction
April 28th, 2005
For years, anecdotal evidence suggested that ovulating or pregnant women or postmenopausal women taking estrogen supplements experienced fewer asthma attacks and less severe asthma symptoms, strongly suggesting that perhaps estrogen affects airway smooth muscle function by preventing the hyper-responsiveness characteristic of asthma and other chronic lung diseases. Now, scientists at the Medical College of Georgia have shown that elevated estrogen levels may reduce the severity of asthma and perhaps of other chronic lung diseases involving airway constriction. Christiana Dimitropoulou and her team at the department of pharmacology and toxicology report that estrogen, as...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-28)
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