In the wake of the release of the Women’s Health Initiative Study in 2002, millions of women in the US and around the World abruptly discontinued their hormone replacement therapy. Many of these women were taking hormone replacement (HRT) for bone protection. Since that time, few studies have looked at the impact
February 24, 2012
Hormone Replacement and Vascular Health
Vascular (vessel) disease is relatively rare in the early decades of a female’s life, but by the time a woman enters her 50′s cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases become leading causes of death. It has long been suspected that a female’s hormones play an important role in these age related cardiovascular changes. A
