LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2006--BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex:BPA) today offered comment on new data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, published in the February volume of the Archives of Internal Medicine, demonstrating that estrogen-alone (conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) at a 0.625 mg once-daily dose) did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 after an average of 7.1 years of treatment. Additionally, data suggest that estrogen-alone therapy may lower the risk of coronary heart disease among women aged 50 to 59.
