Study Links HRT to Ulcerative Colitis in Postmenopausal Women
A new study shows that women who take postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may face an increased risk of developing ulcerative colitis , an inflammatory bowel disease. Researchers at the Harvard Medical School used data from the Nurses’ Health Study for 22,044 women who were postmenopausal and a further 86,800 who became postmenopausal during the course of the study, according to MedWire