Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (2024 Revised and Updated Edition)

by Carol Tavris

—In 1991, cardiologist Lee Goldman and statistician Anna Tosteson, both then at Harvard Medical School, wrote a lead editorial for the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Uncertainty About Postmenopausal Estrogen: Time for Action, Not Debate.” A consensus of epidemiological studies, they wrote, had shown that women who were given postmenopausal estrogen had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in the risk of coronary artery disease compared with women who had not taken hormones.11