HRT may have heart benefit in younger women
Estrogen shown safer during early years of menopause
CHICAGO -
Hormone replacement therapy using estrogen only does not provide overall protection against heart attacks but there may be some benefit against heart disease in younger menopausal women, a study said on Monday.
The study from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is the second to suggest that hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, is safer in younger women just entering menopause than it is in older women well past it.
The findings were based on an analysis of part of a highly publicized 2002 study called the Women’s Health Initiative, or WHI, which found the therapy in general raised the risk of heart attack, stroke, breast cancer and other serious conditions.