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The Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Heart Disease
After about five years into the study, NIH decided on their own, and this was only a group of about five or six doctors, that they had to stop the study. They stopped it without informing any of the, you know, I told you there, 27,000 women enrolled in this study. The population that you studied was not typical of the women who would normally be taking hormone in replacement therapy. And when you couple no benefit in cardiovascular disease, and a slightly higher increase in the risk of breast cancer, those were the two headlines that they led with.