Hormone therapy use among women continues to drop

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Hormone therapy use among women continues to drop

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Years after a large study on hormone replacement therapy revealed health risks among older women using it to prevent chronic disease, the number of women who take hormones continues to decline, according to a new study. The researchers found that in 2009 and 2010, less than five percent of women over age 40, who had already gone through menopause, use either estrogen alone or estrogen and progestin. That compared to about 22 percent in 1999 and 2000. Dr. ...

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