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It worsens incontinence

A new study has revealed that hormone replacement therapy doesn’t help incontinence, one of the reasons it’s prescribed. Researchers have shown that HRT, with or without progesterone, not only worsened incontinence, but actually puts women at twice the risk of becoming so.

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