Two interesting studies involving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were in my local paper today. One study linked HRT to an increase in asthma and the other study linked HRT to a decrease in colon cancer. The asthma/HRT study was published in a medical journal, Thorax, and followed the treatment of 57,000 French women who were of menopause age to determine their risk of developing asthma. None of the women had asthma at the start of the study.
The study kept track of what kind of hormone treatment they were on whether it was hormonal contraceptives or HRT and tracked them over a period of 10 years.
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