New study points to benefits from hormone replacement therapy

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

A decade after a study that raised concerns about the treatment, new findings show that some women who take hormones have improved cholesterol and metabolic function with fewer depressive symptoms. Healthy middle-aged women who take hormones to ease the misery of hot flashes and night sweats have fewer depressive symptoms, less anxiety and tension, and better and more sex than those who do not, according to a new study.

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