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To the Editor: We are puzzled by inconsistencies in the association between hormone use and mortality described by Grodstein et al. (June 19 issue)¹ in the Nurses' Health Study. The authors reported that current hormone use (as compared with nonuse) was associated with decreased mortality, but past hormone use was not associated with mortality, regardless of the duration of use. Past hormone users did have a 19 to 22 percent lower risk of mortality for about five years after stopping hormone therapy, but past users whose last use was five or more years earlier had a statistically significant 16 percent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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