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WDDTY e-News Service - 30 October 2003

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WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No.56 - 30 October 03

 

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MISCARRIAGE: Aspirin increases the risk

 

Not so long ago, aspirin was being hailed as the wonder drug of the century.

Recent research has, however, revealed its dangers, and a new study has added to

these concerns.

 

It shows that pregnant women shouldn't be taking the painkillers as they can

dramatically increase the risk of miscarriage.

 

But the danger isn't just limited to aspirin. The risk also extends to

paracetamol and other members of the family of NSAIDs (non-steroidal,

anti-inflammatory drugs), researchers from the Kaiser Foundation Research

Institute in California have discovered.

 

These common drugs increase the risk of miscarriage by up to 80 per cent, the

research team found. The risk was increased if the woman was taking an NSAID

when she conceived, or if she took an NSAID for longer than a week.

 

The risk was just as strong if the woman had regularly and continually taken an

NSAID before she conceived, although paracetamol was the only NSAID not linked

to this specific risk.

 

The researchers studied 1,055 pregnant women up to the 20th week of their

pregnancy, of whom 53, or 5 per cent, said they had taken an NSAID around

conception or during pregnancy.

 

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2003; 327: 368-71).

 

 

 

NON-HODGKIN: Doing nothing is as good as chemotherapy

 

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a tenacious, systemic cancer. In its advanced stages,

it doesn't respond to chemotherapy or even to a combination of chemo and

radiotherapy.

 

If that's the case, why treat at all when the aggressive treatment will affect

the quality of life of the patient without producing any positive gains?

 

The British National Lymphoma Investigation has tackled this thorny ethical

issue, and concluded that it is as well to do nothing, especially if the patient

is over 70 years of age.

 

They studied 309 patients with advanced stage non-Hodgkin lymphomas; 158 were

given immediate chemotherapy, and the rest were not treated until the disease

progressed.

 

Survival rate in the two groups was similar, and 19 of the patients who never

received any treatment were still alive 10 years later.

 

" Watchful waiting' was as valid a treatment course as chemotherapy, the research

team concluded.

 

(Source: The Lancet, 2003; 362: 516-22).

 

 

 

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HEART RISKS: Is another urban myth toppled?

 

We can all recite the common the causes of a heart attack-smoking, diabetes and

raised blood pressure and cholesterol, to name most of them-and yet up to half

of people who suffer a heart attack don't have any of these risk factors.

 

Well, that's been the general view that has reached the status of urban myth.

Except that it just isn't true, as two major studies of heart attack victims

have revealed.

 

In one, up to 87 per cent of 21,000 people who suffered a fatal heart attack had

at least one of the major risk factors. Of those who had a non-fatal attack, 92

per cent of men and 87 per cent of women had one or more of the risk factors.

 

A second study, which explored the health profiles of 122,458 heart patients,

came up with similar findings. Researchers found that 85 per cent of women and

80 per cent of men with heart disease had one of more of the risk factors.

 

Of course, this does not explain the 20 per cent who did not have any of the

risk factors, nor does it necessarily confirm that the so-called risk factors

actually caused the heart attack. So perhaps this is one urban myth that cannot

be laid to rest quite yet.

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003; 290: 891-7, and

898-904).

 

 

 

ALZHEIMER'S: Does depression play a part?

 

Depression may spark Alzheimer disease, researchers believe. People who have

suffered depression are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's, and the risk is

higher if you have recently suffered depression.

 

If depression has occurred within the past 12 months, you are four times as

likely to develop Alzheimer's as someone who has had maintained a positive

mental attitude; beyond a year, the risk falls to just one times, and the

association is merely 'modest' if depression happened 25 years ago.

 

(Source: Archives of Neurology, 2003; 60: 753-9).

 

 

 

CHEMOTHERAPY: Vitamin E can reduce the worst effects

 

Chemotherapy is like a neutron bomb of a therapy; it leaves nothing standing,

not even the patient. So anything that can offset the worst effects of the drug

therapy is to be welcomed.

 

Researchers have tested vitamin E, an antioxidant, on 27 cancer patients being

treated with chemotherapy. Half were given supplementation, and the rest had

standard treatment. The supplement group was given vitamin E for up to eight

days before chemotherapy started, and the treatment was continued for three

months afterwards.

 

Just a third of the vitamin E group suffered serious side effects, such as

neurotoxicity, from the chemotherapy, compared with 85 per cent of those who

were not given supplements.

 

(Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2003; 21: 927-31).

 

 

 

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READERS' CORNER

 

Head size and autism: Our previous Enews that suggested children who experience

sudden head and brain growth are more prone to autism doesn't get the MMR

vaccine off the hook, says one reader, a homeopath. Could it be, he wonders,

that the vaccine (and the DPT jab) causes the brain and surrounding tissues to

inflame and swell? Because the skull bones are still soft, they will change

shape to accommodate the growing brain. The vaccines could also explain cases

of sudden infant death when the parent has been blamed for shaking the baby.

The bruising could instead be a result of the sudden growth caused by the

vaccinations, he opines.

 

 

Exercise and drinking: Our report last time that suggested that people who

exercise are drinking too much liquid sparked a response from one reader, who

argues that we don't drink enough water. People who think they're taking in

sufficient liquid when they drink tea, coffee, coke etc. are deluding

themselves. Look at the research of Dr F Batmanghelidj, she says.

 

 

A good word for HRT: Finally, some good news about HRT. One woman says she

been taking the therapy for 15 years, and says she couldn't live without it.

HRT does, however, deplete the body of vitamins and minerals and women who do

not replace them may suffer some of the adverse reactions that have been

reported of late, she says.

 

 

Quality control: One reader complains that the print-out quality of our Enews

is poor. It's not bold enough, he says. Is this a problem you've also

experienced? If you have suffered from this or some other technical problem

with Enews, please let us know, and we'll try to rectify.

 

 

 

 

 

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