Hormone Therapy Reduced Insulin Resistance in Healthy Postmenopausal Women

CHICAGO — Hormone therapy for menopause symptoms reduced insulin resistance in healthy postmenopausal women, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 23 randomized trials showed.

Insulin resistance, measured by the Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR), which uses fasting glucose and insulin levels, was significantly reduced in a pooled hormone therapy group compared with a placebo group, with a difference in means of -0.239 (95% CI -0.362 to -0.116, P
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