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January 9, 2005
More Studies On Hormone Replacement Therapy
Hormone replacement therapy has been implicated in higher stroke and heart attack risk in post-menopausal women. But, lately, Australian doctors have dismissed they hype saying that the effect is small and that findings should make little difference to Australian women.
For the majority of women, who used HRT for its primary purpose of mitigating menopausal symptoms, the findings were "unlikely to have an impact", he said. "In terms of absolute numbers, it (the added risk) meant about 10 extra strokes per 10,000 women."
They claim that what the study proved was that HRT is not recommended as a protection against stroke as had once been thought.
However, the latest compilation of data reported in the British Medical Journal states that disabling strokes of all types rose by 56 percent.
The risk of ischemic stroke, caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the brain, rose by 29 percent in women on HRT, according to an account in the Times of London.
Posted by linda at January 9, 2005 8:57 AM
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