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Hormone Replacement Therapy Quotes
article syndicated from RTSE
A large,
multi-center heart disease prevention study,
part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI),
found that estrogen-alone hormone therapy
had no effect on coronary heart disease risk
but increased the risk of stroke for postmenopausal
women. The study also found that estrogen-alone
therapy significantly increased the risk
of deep vein thrombosis, had no significant
effect on the risk of breast or colorectal
cancer, and reduced the risk of hip and other
fractures.
" How did it
come to be that one of the most commonly
prescribed hormone replacement therapy
drugs in the country was used for decades
in so many millions of women before its
long-term effects were ever studied systematically?
This is an example of a big gap in U.S.
health care and science policy regarding
prescription drugs. If you are a company
and can demonstrate that your drug works
well for some short-term outcome, in this
case it was the hot flashes of the menopause,
that drug can then come to be used in a
very widespread way for indications that
really have nothing to do with the basis
on which it was originally approved.”
-Dr. Jerry Avorn, associate professor
of medicine at Harvard Medical School
“ We have long sought the answer to the question: Does postmenopausal hormone
therapy prevent heart disease and, if it does, what are the risks? The bottom-line
answer from the Women’s Health Initiative is that this combined form of
hormone therapy is unlikely to benefit the heart.”
-Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director of the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
“ The whole purpose of healthy women taking long-term
estrogen/progestin therapy is to preserve health and prevent disease. The results
of this study provide strong evidence that the opposite is happening for important
aspects of women’s health, even if the absolute risk is low.”
-Dr. Fletcher & Dr. Graham, Harvard Medical School
“ The study provides an important answer for generations of health postmenopausal
women to come: do not use estrogen/progestin to prevent chronic disease.”
-Dr. Fletcher & Dr. Graham, Harvard Medical School
article syndicated from Hormone
Replacement Therapy Side Effects:
http://www.hormone-replacement-therapy-side-effects.com/html/quotes.html
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