Hormone replacement therapy does not prevent heart attacks in vulnerable women but may lead to an increased risk of blood clots, a study has shown. HRT is known to protect against osteoporosis ...

Women taking certain types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT ... For tablet treatments, the risk was found to differ for two types of oestrogens. Getty Images The risk of blood clots was ...

i.e. allowing a lag-time from 6 months to 6 years between HRT exposure and breast cancer diagnosis. Little difference was also found between crude and adjusted relative risk estimates. The ...

The research was an "observational study" rather than a clinical trial Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease among some higher-risk women, researchers say ...