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Findings raise questions for doctors and their patients.
Byline: Robyn Suriano
ORLANDO, Fla. _ Dr. Ashley Hill has been prescribing hormone replacement therapy to women for his entire professional career to ease the hot flashes, mood swings and other symptoms of menopause.
Women often took the medication indefinitely, believing it might do everything from protecting them against heart disease to slowing the facial wrinkles that come with advancing age.
But then came the widely publicized findings last week that one type of hormone therapy slightly increases a woman's risk of heart attacks, stroke and breast cancer.
And suddenly Hill, along with doctors all over the country, found himself facing questions from scores of his women patients _ some of them in tears _ for which he had no easy answers. Should they continue taking the most commonly prescribed combination of estrogen and progestin? Or stop?
"It's…
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