Hormone patch may be safer for women (Reuters, 4 June 2010)

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Low-dose HRT patches better than pills for stroke risk (BBC News Online, 3 June 2010)

03 Jun 2010

A study published in the British Medical Journal has determined that women taking hormone replacement therapy have a slightly increased risk of stroke unless they administer it via low-dose patches or take oral HRT for less than a year, although the researchers add that the overall risk itself is still very small.

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