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| July 24, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ronald Kotulak and Jon Van

Hormone-replacement therapy, once thought to protect women against heart attacks, actually can increase the risk of cardiac death in some women, a new study finds.

Indeed, as more researchers look more deeply at hormone replacement in postmenopausal women, they are finding more and more how little really is known about this therapy that for years was widely touted almost as a cure-all by some practitioners.

A study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that women who begin taking hormones soon after a heart attack increase their risk of death, more heart attacks…

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