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Notable
Hormone Replacement Therapy Quotes
article syndicated from HRTSE
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
