Elderly women who received progestin as part of hormone replacement therapy have poorer hearing than do women who didn’t get progestin, a new study finds.
Researchers tested the hearing of 124 women ages 60 to 86. Of these, 30 had received estrogen alone, 32 got combination therapy including estrogen and progestin, and 62 didn’t take either hormone.
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