In contemporary standard English, these are the second-person pronouns: 1  you (singular and plural personal pronoun). 2  yours (singular and plural possessive pronoun). 3  yourself and yourselves (singular and plural reflexive / intensive pronouns).
A Cochrane review came to the result that in women starting hormone replacement therapy less than 10 years after menopause have a lower mortality and lower rate of coronary heart disease compared to placebo or no treatment, without any strong evidence of an effect on the risk of stroke.
There are good reasons for this, says Gibbs. During and after menopause, metabolism changes are common and can lead to weight gain, especially in postmenopausal women who tend to be less active than they were in their younger years.