the San Francisco Chronicle of October 24, 2000 reports the results of research, as yet unpublished, linking the use of replacement hormones to the onset of asthma. Although this disease occurs very rarely in adults, it has been found to be twice as high in women on hormone therapy.
This finding was statistically manifested in the Nurse’s Health Study (which has assessed the health of 121,000 women since 1976) and was presented at the American College of Chest Physicians Annual Colloquium by Dr. Graham Barr, Associate Pulmonary Epidemiologist at Harvard. Medical School. Between 1984 and 1996, 756 new cases of asthma were observed in the study group. According to Dr. Barr, this is in addition to the other negative effects of estrogen supplements, but, he says, asthma is still uncommon in postmenopausal women. There is no indication, he added, that hormone therapy can worsen asthma symptoms in women who already had it before taking estrogen.
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