How Hormone Replacement Therapy Affects Heart Disease

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Dr. Hodis shares how hormone replacement therapy affects heart disease.

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Well, it appears that hormones, hormones in particular, protects the heart from problems such as heart attack. So women who are premenopausal or still have their intact ovaries with estrogen production tend to very rarely, if ever, have heart attacks. That becomes a problem after menopause when estrogen goes away. So replacing that hormone estrogen with a pill of estrogen actually can help prevent or slow down that risk of heart disease later in life.
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