Direct evidence is thin. The claim is plausible and aligns with adjacent findings, but there isn't yet a body of high-quality work that would let us call it well-supported on its own terms.
And so there's also the risk of we know dementia and Alzheimer's much higher in women and we can argue the data and I don't think we actually have good data about you know whether hormones are you know when to start them and and if they're actually protective and how they're protective but we also know that heart disease is the number one killer of women and we know that things get worse as you get older.
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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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For symptomatic perimenopausal women under 60, hormone replacement therapy reduces all-cause mortality.
The breast-cancer risk attributed to HRT in the original WHI trial was overstated and the timing window matters most.