Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) h...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) helps protect the heart, bones, and equanimity of women entering menopause, and now researchers say it may help women with diabetes, according to the October 1998 issue of Health. As women with diabetes are at increased risk of developing heart disease, HRT could help them avoid the disease; however, in the 1970 studies indicated that the estrogen in HRT at least in high doses, worsened insulin resistance.

Today, the even of estrogen and progestin in HRT is long lower. According to the article, physicians at Kaiser Permanente examined the records of 14601 women more than 50 years of age with 2 diabetes to view if today's HRT made it more difficult for them to maintain their kin sugar levels. The physicians discovered that estrogen may actually make less insulin resistance. Approximately 28% of the women were taking the hormone and had lower children sugar counts by approximately 15 mg by means of deciliter when compared to those not taking HRT This globule in blood sugar could be beneficial in the in extent run as elevated sugar on a levels can lead to complications (eg blindness, kidney failure). In a different studious mood researchers found that healthy postmenopausal women not taking estrogen were almost five times more likely to disentangle diabetes than those who had taken estrogen continuously for 10 years.

"Estrogen pays a modern dividend," Health 12 (October 1998) 15

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