HRT may protect women with Angry, Aggressive Personalities

Menopause, also known as the Change of life or climacteric, is a stage of the human female reproductive cycle that occurs as the ovaries stop producing estrogen, causing the reproductive system to gradually shut down. A clinical diagnosis that is based on the permanent cessation of menses.

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HRT may protect women with Angry, Aggressive Personalities

Menopause :: HRT may protect women with Angry, Aggressive Personalities

Women with anxious or angry personalities may have higher risk of heart disease after menopause. That's the main finding from a long-term study of how personality affects the heart and arteries. But there's more, note University of Pittsburgh researchers Kelly F. Harris and colleagues.

They found that taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) removes the added heart risk for women with Type A/angry personalities. However, it doesn't lessen the risk for women having an anxious/depressed personality.

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(Published at www.spiritindia.com on Saturday, July 12, 2003)
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