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Investigators suspect that declining estrogen may affect blood vessel walls, but research is still under way, says JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Get your BP and cholesterol checked, and try natural strategies ...
Hormone replacement therapy that includes estrogen plus progestin may not reduce the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) during the first several years of treatment in women who started hormone therapy near menopause, according to research published in the Feb. 16 issue ...
In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, teriparatide and raloxifene may significantly reduce the risk of vertebral fractures, according to a study published in the June 1 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.. Compared to placebo, the researchers found that teriparatide ...
10/28/2008 Print E-mail Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: The research site is in Charlottesville, Va.. The research site is in Atlanta, Ga.. The research site is in Boston, Mass.. ul> li> b>Liver Cancer /b> /li> li> b> Epilepsy ...
Testing for elevated androgen levels should be considered in premenopausal women who have moderate to severe hirsutism and in those with milder hirsutism accompanied by menstrual dysfunction, obesity or clitoromegaly, according to a clinical practice guideline published in the Journal of Clinical ...
Relatively young postmenopausal women in their 50s who receive estrogens after a hysterectomy have less calcified plaque in their coronary arteries than those who take a placebo, according to the results of a randomized trial in the June 21 issue of the ...
In hypertensive and normotensive postmenopausal women, substituting soy nuts for other protein sources can reduce blood pressure. In hypertensive women, soy nut supplementation may also reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein B, according to the results of a randomized trial ...
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