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Evidence-Based Answer
Relatively healthy women taking combined continuous hormone therapy have higher risks of myocardial infarction and venous thromboembolism after one year, stroke after three years, and breast cancer after five years. In women who take hormone therapy continuously for five years, there is a lower incidence of fractures and colon cancer. Although it may be relatively safe and effective for short-term symptom control, hormone therapy should not be given routinely for prevention or chronic disease management.1
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