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Created:July 3, 2002
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Getting Compliance with Long-Term HRT Therapy

Teaching Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, July 2002.
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This essay is based on a consensus opinion by the North American Menopause Society: Achieving Long-Term Continuance of Menopausal ERT/HRT.

HRT stnads for hormone replacement therapy, much discussed today over the benefits it provides to pre- and post- menopausal women. A study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association today, suggests that there is no beneficial effect in HRT as a preventative or aid to cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal women. That is bad news, for some earlier studies had suggest possible benefiicial effects.

There is still much that medicine does not know. That is partly because the human body is so complex, and research has been so poorly funded, usually poured into specific diseases for the purpose of preventing and helping to cure specific medical crises, like diabetes, AIDS, smallpox, polio, etc. Studies like the one just released are often put off far longer than we would like. And one study does not establish the results with certainty. For that, we need replication. And eight year studies (particularly of women, since most medical studies focus on men) are hard to fund, and take eight years, after all.

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