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Risk dwarfs benefit in WHI review of hormone therapy: HT is for select clinical situations only.(News)
BETHESDA, MD. -- In retrospect, perhaps the most startling thing about the hormone therapy study of the Women's Health Initiative was how wrong most experts had been beforehand about the benefits of estrogen in postmenopausal women.
Before the study, some had questioned the ethics of running a hormone-therapy trial with a placebo arm. But now, almost 4 years after the early halt to the estrogen-plus-progestin arm of the Women's Health Initiative, the final-outcomes balance sheet shows many risks and few benefits. The second, estrogen-only arm of WHI ran a little longer and compiled better results, with the risks of treatment roughly equaling its benefits. But the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Risk dwarfs benefit in WHI review of hormone therapy: HT is for...