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Dave Ritz, Operations Manager | May 21, 2004
The over 10,000 participants in the study "do not have to feel this is some grand emergency for them," said
Barbara Alving, director of the Women's Health Initiative. But, she added, "Women shouldn't take hormone therapy to prevent heart disease."
This new information comes on the heels of two more recent findings about HRT. It has recently been linked to
hearing loss and is shown to
trigger asthma. Older women receiving HRT did 10 percent to 30 percent worse on hearing tests than women not receiving HRT, and women receiving HRT are over twice as likely to have asthma problems.
Hormone Replacement Therapy isn't nearly as popular as it was in years past, but this is more bad news for such a widely used product that has already been linked to breast cancer and dementia.
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