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Hormone therapy less risky for younger women-study

...But HRT remained popular in part because doctors had observed that women taking the drugs were less likely to have heart disease over the long term.

Manson and others who worked on the WHI study noted the women in it were on average 63 — a decade past menopause.

They wondered what would happen with younger women, just entering menopause.

So they used data from the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing study of 121,700 female nurses, age 30 to 55 when it started in 1976.

Every two years these women have filled out detailed questionnaires on their health, habits and medications.

When they died, their medical records were carefully added.

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Hormone therapy less risky for younger women-study