A nurse provides teaching to a group of nursing students about the risks and benefits of hormone therapy (HT), including estrogen therapy (ET) and combination estrogen/progestin therapy (EPT)
Which statement by a student indicates understanding of the teaching? a. "ET can provide protection against coro-nary heart disease and reverse osteoporo-sis."
b. "EPT is generally safer than ET, especially in women who have undergone hysterectomies."
c. "In women with established coronary heart disease, EPT can protect against myocardial infarction."
d. "Principle benefits of ET are suppression of menopausal symptoms and prevention of bone loss."
D
ET can be used to suppress menopausal symptoms and to prevent osteoporosis, but it carries risks of breast cancer and stroke, while conferring no preventive benefit for coronary heart disease. ET does not reverse osteoporosis but may help prevent it. EPT is not safer than ET; progestins appear to increase the risk of breast cancer. EPT does not prevent myocardial infarction in patients with coronary heart disease.
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