Every day, it seems, we get another opinion on the role of hormone therapy and how it affects women. We’ve heard that hormone replacement therapy can increase the risk of heart attacks and cancer for women. But one doctor now says that might not be the case for women, or at least, younger women.

Dr. Leon Speroff maintains that heart attack risk increased after the age of 70 for women. He also says a “number of studies indicate estrogen therapy very likely does reduce heart disease in women under 60.”
Furthermore, he says estrogen doesn’t increase the …read more