Guest guest Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 A little bit of everything tonight... If this is a concern of yours, and you are looking for answers- you are in the right place! Post a message here at searching- alternatives, that is exactly what we are about- sharing and verifying natural health solutions! Misty. http://www..com US Women Evading HRT Due To Risks 1-11-3 (ANI) -- A new survey has found that thousands of women in the US are evading hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after it was discovered that its long-term use might increase risk of heart disease. HRT involving combinations of oestrogen and progestin were found to raise the risk of heart disease, blood clots and strokes. A survey of more than 370,000 users of various types of HRT found that while 57 percent of women said they were continuing with combination HRT, the rest had either changed brands or stopped using HRT altogether. The survey findings were released a day after the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) required that all HRT containing oestrogen had to be accompanied by warning labels. More than a fifth of those questioned had stopped using any therapy containing oestrogen and were not taking anything else to ward off brittle bone disease. This is more than double the normal discontinuation rate found over the same period, despite the fact that the study found no extra risks for women taking only oestrogen. Raulo Frear, from Express Scripts, which carried out the survey, was quoted by BBC as saying, " Now that the longer-term risk of using HRT combination products is better understood, large numbers of women and their physicians acted promptly to avoid HRT and reduce their risk " . (ANI) 2001 ANI-Asian News International. All rights reserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Thanks, Misty. This is a case of " throwing out the baby with the bathwater " . Estriol (the one fraction of human estrogen that has shown NO danger and the highest benefits of all the fractions) needs to be used for the osteoporotic prevention, and the other benefits of HRT, rather than hysterically throwing it all out. Combining progesterone with estrogen was never a good idea and many of us said that loud and clear for as many years as it was practiced. All it did was save the lazy doc from having to think. Modern, Conventional Medicine is an arena of hysterical madness (Another example is MVP.) not related to science at all but to a monopoly run amok. The Hippocratic Oath used to say " First do no harm. " Now that has been deleted by the AMA to say, first, " Be kind and generous to your colleagues. " In other words, it is more important to not rat on your fellow docs than it is to put the patient's welfare first. Namaste` to us all. Walt - <mistytrepke Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:49 PM US Women Evading HRT Due To Risks A little bit of everything tonight... If this is a concern of yours, and you are looking for answers- you are in the right place! Post a message here at searching- alternatives, that is exactly what we are about- sharing and verifying natural health solutions! Misty. http://www..com US Women Evading HRT Due To Risks 1-11-3 (ANI) -- A new survey has found that thousands of women in the US are evading hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after it was discovered that its long-term use might increase risk of heart disease. HRT involving combinations of oestrogen and progestin were found to raise the risk of heart disease, blood clots and strokes. A survey of more than 370,000 users of various types of HRT found that while 57 percent of women said they were continuing with combination HRT, the rest had either changed brands or stopped using HRT altogether. The survey findings were released a day after the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) required that all HRT containing oestrogen had to be accompanied by warning labels. More than a fifth of those questioned had stopped using any therapy containing oestrogen and were not taking anything else to ward off brittle bone disease. This is more than double the normal discontinuation rate found over the same period, despite the fact that the study found no extra risks for women taking only oestrogen. Raulo Frear, from Express Scripts, which carried out the survey, was quoted by BBC as saying, " Now that the longer-term risk of using HRT combination products is better understood, large numbers of women and their physicians acted promptly to avoid HRT and reduce their risk " . (ANI) 2001 ANI-Asian News International. All rights reserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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