Long Terms Study Results Offer Broad Perspective On Hormone Replacement Therapy For Women

More than a decade ago the NHLBI's Women's Health Initiative trials overturned the conventional wisdom that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women helped protect women from a broad spectrum of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease. The findings caused dramatic reductions in the use of HRT but important questions remained, many involving the age or time since menopause of women taking HRT.  Now a report published in JAMA provides for the first time a comprehensive ov...