A new study adds incontinence to the list of ailments that hormone pills had been thought to help prevent, but now appear to worsen, at least in older women. Estrogen pills with or without progestin increased postmenopausal women’s risk of developing incontinence, and also appeared to make it worse in women who already had the vexing problem. The findings came from the same landmark government study that in the past few years linked the widely used supplements to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer and dementia.
