Dr. Susan Hendrix, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, commented about a study revealing that hormone pills taken at menopause seem to worsen incontinence. The findings, published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, come from research on 27, 347 women, ages 50 to 79, participating in the Women's Health Initiative study. Hendrix was the lead author of the study. "We were hoping to find a gleam of hope for estrogen" after all the earlier negative findings, but the results with incontinence were disappointing, too, said Hendrix.