Guest guest Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 It also said: "While the increased risk of dementia is significant when calculated over a large population of women, the risk to any individual older woman is actually relatively small. " Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: Francesca Skelton Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [ ] More reason not to take estrogen andprogestin And it wasn't very long ago that they were saying that HRT PREVENTED memoryloss!!on 5/27/2003 5:23 PM, Alan Pater at apater@... wrote:> Conclusions Estrogen plus progestin therapy increased the risk for probable> dementia in postmenopausal women aged 65 years or older. In addition,> estrogen plus progestin therapy did not prevent mild cognitive impairment in> these women. These findings, coupled with previously reported WHI data,> support the conclusion that the risks of estrogen plus progestin outweigh> the benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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