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postmenopausal

British

/ ˌpəʊstmɛnəʊˈpɔːzəl /

adjective

existing or taking place after the menopause

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Then, in 2002, a government-funded clinical trial on postmenopausal women and HRT was halted after early findings that hormone therapy posed a number of health risks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Participants who were postmenopausal and over a BMI of 25Kg/m2 were selected for this study.

From Science Daily

Conjugated equine estrogen—made from the urine of horses and used in the WHI study—decreases breast-cancer risk in postmenopausal women when used without progesterone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among postmenopausal women, those who used relaxers most often had a greater than 50% increased risk of uterine cancer compared to those who never or seldom used them.

From Seattle Times

The study of 16,608 postmenopausal women taking HRT mostly looked at women between the ages of 50 and 79; the average age was 63.

From MarketWatch

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