Hormone therapy for women in menopause can slow aging and benefit health, study shows

Hormone therapy can benefit women's health during menopause, according to new research.

In the study, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, researchers looked at more than 100,000 women in the U.K. and found being on hormone replacement therapy seems to slow biological aging.

"In this study, postmenopausal women with historical (hormone therapy) use were biologically younger than those not receiving (hormone therapy), with a more evident association observed in those with low (socioeconomic status)," the authors wrote. "Promoting (hormone therapy) in postmenopausal women could be important for healthy aging."