The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the 2002 follow-up said that the combination of estrogen and progesterone increases the risk of breast cancer not true we've discussed that increases the risk of heart attacks increases the risk of cognitive decline decreases the risk of colon cancer and helps protect the bones
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the one finding that got all of the attention was that in the women with uterus group if you got the synthetic progesterine and estrogen, you had an increase in your incidence of breast cancer. It turned out it didn't actually lead to any change in mortality from breast cancer, but there was an increase in the incidence.