41.   The girls are usually of normal intelligence but suffer from a variety of problems including infertility and a need to take hormones at adolescence.

42.   The hormones can be taken either in continuous or cycled therapy.

43.   The lowered mortality risk among those who took hormones lasted only a short while among the women who stopped taking them.

44.   The increase in risk for lobular tumors was greater, about three times as much as that of a woman who did not take hormones.

45.   The participants were similar in education and health backgrounds, reducing the chances that those who chose to take hormones were healthier to begin with.

46.   The women taking the hormones had more cancers go undetected by mammography than those not taking the estrogen therapy.

47.   They said taking the hormones on alternate days is slightly riskier than taking both every day.

48.   Those at risk for osteoporosis or heart disease should consider taking the hormone, Raisz said.

49.   To establish such proof requires a large long-term study in which some women are randomly assigned to take postmenopausal hormones while others are not.

50.   While taking the hormone, the men gained muscle mass and excreted less bone mineral.