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Estrogen doesn’t improve life after menopause

...Later results showed estrogen-only pills, sold as Premarin, slightly increased older women’s risk of a stroke and possibly dementia.

The new results for estrogen-only pills echo previous data from the same study showing estrogen-progestin had little effect on older women’s overall well-being and quality of life.

The 10,739 women in the latest study, which appeared in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, had all had hysterectomies.

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