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Article: Hormone Replacement Therapy Heart Questioned.
- Article from:
- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Results of a new study raise questions about cardiovascular benefits of estrogen-progestin hormone therapy in women who have heart disease. According to an article in the Sept 1, 1998, Mayo Clinic Health Oasis, researchers found during a four-year randomized study of more than 2,700 women between ages 44 and 79 that daily use of an estrogen-progestin pill did not reduce the incidence of heart attack or death.
The women, whose average age was 66,7, had atherosclerosis (ie, hardening of the arteries), had previously experienced a heart attack, or had undergone bypass surgery or angioplasty to clear blocked or narrowed coronary arteries. The women took either a ...