HRT May Prevent Heart Symptoms in Younger Women

BOSTON (Reuters) - Younger women who start taking estrogen as soon as they enter menopause may be protected from heart disease, researchers said on Wednesday.They found that women aged 50 to 59 who took estrogen were 30 percent to 40 percent less likely than women taking placebos to have large amounts of calcified plaque in their arteries -- a widely accepted predictor of heart attack risk.

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