Researchers have found yet another problem that hormone pills taken at menopause seem to make worse, not better: incontinence. Estrogen and progestin have long been thought to help prevent or lessen urine leakage in menopausal women. "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 lead author Dr. Susan Hendrix, a gynecologist at Wayne State. 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.