CNN (3/27, Lamotte) reports that research on “more than 1,000 postmenopausal women, ages 50 to 80, found that those who were currently taking hormones had significantly lower levels of tummy fat than women who had never used them.” The findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

MedPage Today (3/27, Minerd) reports that “the mean percentage of body fat in women undergoing” hormone replacement “therapy was 34.6%, compared with 36.2% for women who had therapy in the past and 35.9% for women who never had hormone therapy.” The study indicated that “mean visceral fat mass, measured as the fat deep in the abdomen around the internal organs, not subcutaneous abdominal fat, was 0.42 kg for women undergoing therapy, compared with 0.48 kg both for women with past therapy and those who never received it.” Meanwhile, “the mean body-mass index (BMI) was 24.9 for current users of menopausal hormone therapy, versus 25.6 for past users and 25.8 for never users.”

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