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The findings of the NIH’s Women’s Health Initiative Study in 2002 changed forever the way that HT had been understood to work and the wide range of benefits it was thought to have provided. In the decade since, researchers and practitioners have come to understand safer ways to prescribe estrogen and estrogen plus progesterone replacement therapy so that women seeking relief from menopause symptoms can access a safe hormone therapy that relieves symptoms without suffering from unwanted and dangerous side effects.
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Sherif, K. (2013). Medical Association Guidelines, Post-2002/Women’s Health Initiative Findings. In: Hormone Therapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6268-2_3
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