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Hormone replacement therapy ups risk of acid reflux

(News Inferno) UPDATED 2008-09-12
Menopausal women who take hormones may be more likely to develop gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a new study has found. The study's authors examined data on 51,637 postmenopausal women and found that those who had used hormones had a 46 percent higher risk of having GERD than women who had not taken hormones. Women currently using estrogen had a 66 percent raised risk, and those using combined estrogen and progesterone had a 41 percent increased risk. Researchers also found that women using selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) such as tamoxifen and raloxifene to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis also had a higher risk of developing reflux.
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