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Title
National use of postmenopausal hormone therapy: annual trends and response to recent evidence.
Authors
Hersh, Adam L; Stefanick, Marcia L; Stafford, Randall S
Abstract
Postmenopausal hormone therapy use increased dramatically during the past 2 decades because of a prevailing belief in its health benefits. Recent evidence from randomized trials published in July 2002 demonstrated adverse cardiovascular disease events and other risks with hormone therapy in the form of oral estrogen combined with progestin.