Discuss the latest findings on women's use of hormone therapy to relieve symptoms such as hot flashes. Focus on the potential for harmful side effects
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Medical thinking on hormone therapy (HT), long believed to prevent heart disease and stroke and help women live longer, has changed, particularly related to the combination of estrogen and progestin. Based on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)—a series of clinical trials begun in 1991 on postmenopausal women—HT now is recommended for fewer than five years as "a reasonable option" for the relief of moderate to severe symptoms such as hot flashes.
As various studies have confirmed, longer-term combination therapy increases the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, blood clots, and stroke. In the latest analysis of the WHI data, the risks to women who took estrogen-only therapy faded after they stopped their treatment.
Middle-aged women who take hormone therapy are not at increased risk of heart attack, memory loss, or dementia years down the road, according to a new study. Earlier research had raised alarms that hormone therapy might increase the risk of these health problems. Many of the women in these studies were older than 65 and had started taking hormones 20 years past menopause. Younger women taking replacement hormones did face a slightly elevated risk of breast cancer.
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