This is the first study of its kind in women.

Previous studies never told us the prognostic implications of not achieving your age-predicted exercise level. This study is based on women we've followed since 1992. We know who's dead and who's alive, and we've found that if you achieve under 85 percent of your age-predicted exercise level, you're considerably more likely to die from cardiac disease.

As anticipated, when the young women in the current study were asked to select the agents who were most like them and who they most wanted to be like, they tended to pick young, female, attractive, and cool agents.

It looked more effective in women over 60 who adhered to the study medication.

This extensive, well-conducted study shows that women who undergo hysterectomy with removal of both ovaries are more likely to have low sexual desire and also more likely to be distressed about this.

Applied to women, this lifetime study suggests that having an estrogen deficiency in the pre-menopausal years predicts a higher rate of heart disease after menopause, even when treated with hormone replacement therapy after menopause.