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In this issue of the Journal, Grodstein and colleagues¹ present important data from a large study of the risks and benefits associated with postmenopausal hormone-replacement therapy. Like previous investigators, they found a significantly reduced risk of death from all causes among recent hormone users. This reduction in mortality is the consequence of a profound decrease in the risk of death from coronary heart disease and a somewhat smaller reduction in mortality from cancer, although this reduction was not evident for all types of cancer. The study showed that the reduction in mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer was probably not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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