Abstract

Many women and their clinicians avoid postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) due to the adverse effects observed in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials and the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS). Now, a long-term prospective cohort study has found a positive association between estrogen therapy (ET) and longevity. Researchers sent health surveys to women in a California retirement community in 1981. They resurveyed the women periodically and reviewed hospital records …

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