Why not take statins instead of HRT to protect my heart? As we discussed in chapter 3, heart disease kills up to seven times as many women each year as breast cancer does (300,000 versus 41,000); in every decade of a woman’s life after age thirty, heart disease is responsible for more deaths than breast cancer. Being on ERT or HRT can reduce the risk of acute cardiovascular events and death by up to 50 percent.
