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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “In 1999, approximately 27% of postmenopausal women took…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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It helps women sleep better, think more clearly and live fuller, longer and healthier lives. In short, it restores balance not just hormonally, but emotionally and physically. That's why In 1999, approximately 27% of postmenopausal women took hormone replacement therapy. Then in 2002, a study called the Women's Health Initiative found that women taking hormone replacement therapy may have an increased risk of of breast cancer diagnoses, not mortality, but diagnoses. (08:02–08:11)

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Asserts that 27% of postmenopausal women used hormone replacement therapy in 1999.

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