What is the current situation regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?
In 1993, the National Institute for Health (NIH) began recruitment for a study that was meant to definitively answer questions relating to HRT. HRT had, for decades, been viewed as a positive thing for women, a “fountain of youth” of sorts; however, the true effects had never been studied on a large scale. The study, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), would have a specific HRT trial involving 16,000 postmenopausal women who would receive either a placebo or a specific HRT program. The study was ended approximately 3 years early as data coming in from the study indicated some alarming trends. The researchers found that the women who were placed on HRT had a 26% increase in the risk of breast cancer, 41% increase in strokes, 100% increase in venous thromboembolic events (blockage of blood vessels) and a 29% increase in heart attacks. As a result of the aforementioned findings, the researchers decided to immediately end the HRT portion of the study and announced their findings to the pu
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