What cardiovascular effect is reported for women who start HRT within six to ten years of menopause?

Name: Hormone Therapy’s Impact On Women 😲
Uploaded: 2024-02-07T15:00:25+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: YouTube informational talk by Dr. Charles Mok about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and menopause. The speaker explains that fear of disease led to…

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Hormone Therapy’s Impact On Women 😲

7 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube informational talk by Dr. Charles Mok about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and menopause. The speaker explains that fear of disease led to wide abandonment of HRT, which the speaker views as a major negative consequence for women's health. Longer-term follow-up indicates that women who began HRT within about 6–10 years after menopause experienced about a 40% reduction in cardiovascular events and cardiovascular death.

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About a 40% reduction in cardiovascular events and cardiovascular death when HRT was started within six to ten years of menopause.

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We weren't putting women who were in menopause 10 or 15, 20 years into menopause, starting on a strong synthetic sex steroid. But this led to a wide abandonment of the use of hormone replacement therapy in women. And probably one of the biggest negative consequences in women's health care of the last century was abandoning treatment of menopause for fear of causing disease. Now, when we start looking back at the information more intently, because it's been out 20 years, we identify that women who were started on the hormone replacement therapy, even these strong synthetic hormones, within six to 10 years of menopause had about a 40% reduction in cardiovascular events and cardiovascular death.