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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) ii

Your risks It is impossible to know whether you will develop health problems from HRT. If you have no personal or family history of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, heart attack, stroke, blood clots, and dementia, your increased HRT risks are likely to be small. If you have a personal or family history of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, or heart disease, […]

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Category: 1. What is Menopause

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) i

Introduction   Over the past decades, menopausal women have been encouraged to use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for its apparent health- and youth-preserving benefits. It is true that HRT lowers the risk of osteoporosis and possibly colon cancer.1, 2 But, compared to women not taking hormones, women taking HRT have slightly higher rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, heart attack, […]

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Pueraria mirifica prevents bone loss i

Pueraria mirifica, a phytoestrogen-rich herb, prevents bone loss in orchidectomized rats.    Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov’t Journal: Maturitas (Maturitas). Reference: 2007-Mar; vol 56 (issue 3) : pp 322-31 PMID: 17101247 (status: MEDLINE) (last retrieval date: 12/12/2007) Nontakorn Urasopon Yuzuru Hamada Kazuo Asaoka Wichai Cherdshewasart Suchinda Malaivijitnond Affiliation: Biological Science Ph.D. Program, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, […]

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Category: 1. What is Menopause