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Hormones
Don't Shield Older Women from Heart Attack
(New York, Reuters, 7/2/02)
In 1998 the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study
(HERS) reported that there was a higher risk of heart attack
for women in their first year of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
Now an analysis of of the data from HERS2 by a team led by Dr.
Deborah Grady of the University of California, San Francisco,
shows that after 7 years, being on HRT did not improve the
rate of heart attack or cardiac death for women who had heart
disease. Furthermore, an analysis of HERS2 by Dr. Stephen
Hulley of the University of California, San Francisco, showed
a correlation between HRT and gall bladder disease, as well as
blood clots. |
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