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Hormone replacement therapy could protect against leg ulcers.(Brief Article)
1902 MAR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Elderly women given hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could be at a reduced risk of developing leg ulcers and pressure sores, conclude authors of a research letter in the February 23, 2002, Lancet.
Pressure ulcers and venous leg ulcers are common chronic wounds. Estrogens in the form of HRT might have an effect on wound healing, but this possibility has not been widely studied.
David Margolis and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, studied the records of around 45,000 elderly patients (older than 65 years) from the U.K. General ...
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