HEALTH REPORT - Hormone Replacement Questioned(在线收听) |
By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
replacement can treat serious conditions suffered by older women. Women’s bodies Until now, medical experts believed that taking the hormone estrogen could protect older replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer if used for many years. The new report was paid for by the United States National Institutes of Health and the private Giovanni Loren The full report will be published in June. But the part concerning hormone replacement and other treatments was The group’s goal was to present all the information in one report for doctors around the world. The group examined only studies that used the scientific method called a randomized control trial. In such studies, people The report said that hormone replacement is useful to ease the hot feelings that some women experience during For example, three recent studies show that taking hormones increases instead of reduces the chance of a heart The report said taking hormones can slow bone loss. But the loss continues after women stop taking the This VOA Special English Health Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.
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