Estrogen Boosts Risk in Women with Heart Disease

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Estro. MedicalConspiracies@googlegrogen Boosts Risk in Women with Heart

Disease

 

http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/estrogen_boosts_risk_heart_disease.htm

 

In contrast to its usual role in reducing heart risk, starting estrogen

replacement therapy may actually increase the risk of heart problems in

postmenopausal women who have already been diagnosed with heart disease,

reported a North Carolina researcher at the American College of Cardiology in

New Orleans. In a study of more than 1,850 female heart attack patients that was

originally designed to look at the protective effects of aspirin, more than 37%

of women who began hormone replacement therapy after the study began were

hospitalized with unstable angina -- chest pain not triggered by exertion, as in

stable angina -- within a year. In contrast, the hospitalization rate for women

who had never used hormone replacement therapy was 17%, and the rate for those

already on hormone replacement therapy prior to aspirin therapy was 21%. The

study results are similar to those reported by a team of researchers at the

University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) last summer. Nearly a third of

women with heart disease in the UCSF study who began estrogen replacement

therapy after beginning either aspirin or the blood-thinning drug Coumadin were

hospitalized with unstable angina within a year, compared with a hospitalization

rate of 21% in those already on estrogen.

 

COMMENT: Well folks, here is additional information. Last summer the definitive

evidence was published showing that estrogen does NOT protect against heart

disease. This is in spite of what the drug companies have been saying for years.

They were able to manipulate data and convince many physicians of this and help

push products like Premarin to one of the best selling drugs ever. If you or

someone you know is on estrogen, please be advised that this is something you

should aggressively attempt to stop.