Estrogen therapy can help keep joint pain at bay after menopause for women who have had a hysterectomy. Joint pain was modestly, but significantly, lower in women who took estrogen alone than in women who took placebo in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial. The findings were published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society. Studies looking at how estrogen affects joint pain in women after menopause have had mixed results...
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