HRT linked to risk of blood clots

ananova.com ^ | 23:09 Tuesday 2nd July 2002

[krodriguesdc]

HRT linked to risk of blood clots

Hormone replacement therapy may lead to an increased risk of blood clots, a study shows.

The new findings from the US also suggest HRT offers no protection against heart attacks for women who already have heart disease.

HRT is known to protect against oesteoporosis, but the jury is still out on whether it helps prevent heart disease.

However it does appear to be linked to some harmful problems such as blood clots and gallbladder disease.

The results came from a follow up to a study in which a total of 2,763 postmenopausal women with heart disease were enrolled.

In 1998 scientists working on the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) reported that, surprisingly, risk of heart attack increased in women on hormone replacement therapy during the first year of the study.

The risk seemed to decrease in the next several years, leading researchers to set up the follow-up study, HERS II to evaluate the effects of longer duration HRT.

One of the chief investigators, Dr Deborah Grady, from the University of California at San Francisco, said: "This follow-up study found no reduction in risk of heart attacks or death for women with heart disease during up to seven years of hormone therapy.

"Not only was there no cardiovascular benefit, there were adverse effects, including blood clots and gallbladder disease."

HRT caused a two-fold increase in the risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs. There was a nearly 50% increase in the risk of gallbladder disease requiring surgery.

Story filed: 23:09 Tuesday 2nd July 2002

[Clara Lou]

Everything causes bowel cancer or blood clots or heart disease or cysts or senile dementia or coronary artery disease or osteoporosis or _____. (Fill in the blank with the dire disease of your choice.)

[commish]

HMmm so let's see the choices are

Have hot flashes, be moody, break a Bone every time you bump Anything

or

POSSIBLY increase your risk for blood clots or Gall Bladder Disease

Wow tough choice

[Billthedrill]

Yep, and HRC causes high blood pressure.

[Aggie Mama]

That's because doctors are pushing synthetic hormones on women. Instead of giving women natural hormones, they give them synthetics b/c that's all they know. It's the synthetics that are causing the damage. The drug companies can't patent a natural occuring hormone, so they change the structure of it, call it Premarine or something like it and sell it as a miracle to women.

An excellent book on this is Natural Hormone Balance by Uzzi Reiss. The pharmacutical companies have done wonderful things for many people, but giving women synthetic hormones isn't one of them.

[RJCogburn]

That's because doctors are pushing synthetic hormones on women

My sweetie, Ms. Eula Goodnight knows a thing or two about HRT. Ms. Eula says that the blood clot findings have to do with the fact that the estrogen was taken by mouth. This means it is absorbed through the intestine and passes from there by the bloodstream through the liver. The liver is a producer of some clotting factors and it is here that the problem with tendencies to clotting occur.

Ms. Eula believes that the transdermal estrogens, which are absorbed from a patch through the skin directly into the bloodstream, thereby bypassing the liver avoids this problem.

BTW, the estrogen in, I believe'Ogen' is a natural plant derived estrogen.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Bump!

[krodriguesdc]

I wonder how women in other countries do so well, and live so long, and have less breast and lung cancer and heart disease etc., without all of our wonder drugs?

HMMMM...

[commish]

amazing isn't it.