Risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy
An important study in the latest NEJM sheds new light on the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
Estrogen use reduces mortality by about 40%...primarily by decreasing death from heart disease.
But the study shows this benefit declines after 10 years...because of an increase in mortality from breast cancer.
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