For decades, postmenopausal women were told to keep on taking the hormones that had gotten them through hot flashes. Doctors believed that HRT (hormone replacement therapy) would keep bones strong and hearts healthy. But in 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative demonstrated that women taking Prempro were at higher risk of cardiovascular complications and breast cancer.
A follow-up has just been published on how the women in that study have fared in the years since then. Dr. Susan Love helps us understand the findings and discusses how women can keep their bones strong without HRT.
Guest: Susan Love, MD, is President of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation (www.drslrf.org). This organization works to eradicate breast cancer and improve the quality of women’s health through innovative research, education, and advocacy and sponsor the Army of Women (http://www.armyofwomen.org/). She is also a clinical professor of surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author, with Karen Lindsey, of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book. The fifth edition has just been published by Da Capo Press.
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