Article: Longer Use of Hormones Fails to Prevent Heart Attacks in Postmenopausal Women With Heart Disease; Increased Clotting, Gallbladder Disease Found in Study of Hormone Therapy.

Byline: University of California, San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although therapy with hormones was once thought to protect women's hearts after menopause, a UCSF-led study has found that, at least for women with heart disease, estrogen plus progestin therapy does not reduce the risk of heart attack or death.

The July 3, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contains two articles with the results of the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Follow-up Study (HERS II).

HERS was a randomized, blinded trial to determine the effects of estrogen plus progestin (compared with placebo) in ...

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