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Hormone Therapy Safe, Effective for Women Entering Menopause -- Experts Stress Finding Applies Only to Those Under 60

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Posted: Tue., May 20, 2008, 07:21 am
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Topics: Menopause, bone health, breast cancer, cognition, Columbia University, Estrogen, heart disease, HRT, progesterone, Treatments - Traditional, EmpowHer News
     

TUESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Many women, and even some physicians, quickly abandoned the use of hormone replacement therapy in 2002, after the large Women's Health Study suggested that the treatment might harm women who were long past menopause.

But now a team of international experts has concluded that for women in early menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can safely provide real symptom relief, as well as additional benefits such as increased bone strength.
     
     
     
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