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Timely Medical reports regarding your health and Disease Prevention.
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Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy
After menopause, estrogen may be prescribed to relieve menopausal symptoms, prevent osteoporotic fractures, and/or reduce the risk of CHD. In US and European women who use postmenopausal estrogen, studies have confirmed a reduced risk for Heart Disease, and have suggested a reduced risk of stroke.
Estrogen is thought to protect against Heart Disease by exerting beneficial changes on lipids, lipoproteins, and fibrinogen, and by triggering favorable vasomotor and antioxidant effects. As a result, estrogen use may be credited for a 35% to 50% reduced risk for Coronary Heart Disease. Thus, a healthy woman with no outstanding risk for heart disease, cancer, or osteoporosis would gain, on average, one additional year of life by using estrogen after menopause.
New "designer estrogens" are also under clinical scrutiny; it is hoped that these selective estrogen receptive modulators will prove to benefit the cardiovascular and skeletal systems without posing any significant threat to the breast or endometrial tissue.
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