Women have many concerns when their doctor discusses hormone replacement therapy.
Many scientists have anecdotally thought this might be the case but it has not been scientifically proven. The five-year study involved 1,741 women ranging in age from 20 to 100. Among the women studied, 1.2 percent had sleep apnea. Sleep apnea was found in 0.6 percent of premenopausal women and in 0.5 percent of postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy. In contrast 2.7 percent of postmenopausal women not taking hormone replacement therapy had sleep apnea, more than five times the rate of women taking hormone replacement therapy.