AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Study Finds Starting Hormone Replacement After Heart Attack Increases Women's Cardiac Risk.
2001 JUL 26 - (NewsRx Network) -- For years, physicians thought that hormone replacement therapy protected the hearts of postmenopausal women. That belief shattered when the first randomized study revealed that hormone therapy actually increases the chances of having a heart attack within the first year for women who already have heart disease and has no long-term effect on their chances of dying from heart disease.
Now a new study published in the July 2001 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that women who start taking hormones soon after a heart attack increase their risk of death, heart attacks, and other problems.
"The big question is whether starting hormone replacement therapy after you already have heart disease is too little too late," said lead author Dr. Karen P. Alexander, of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina. "Women who aren't already on hormone replacement therapy shouldn't start hormones purely for the cardioprotective effects after having a heart attack."
In the study, Alexander and her colleagues analyzed data from the Coumadin Aspirin Reinfarction Study database of women who had recently suffered heart attacks. They classified the 1,857 postmenopausal women in the database as ...
- Association for Eradication of Heart Attacks Says Routine Heart Attack...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 4, 2004 700+ words
...First National Heart Attack Screening Guidelines...that found sudden heart attacks can be prevented...near-future heart attack. The AEHA estimates...screening for heart attacks would reveal that...experience a sudden heart attack within 12 ...
- New Data Show Early Use Of Anti-Platelet Therapy Reduced Combined Death Or...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 17, 2003 700+ words
...incidence of combined death or subsequent heart attacks, according to research presented today...in-hospital death or subsequent heart attack by approximately 14 percent (p<...angiography, may reduce the risk of death or heart attack," said Dr. Greenbaum. "This finding...
- Rich foods, clotting, and heart attacks. (high-fat diets increase heart attack...
- Magazine article from: Science News Fackelmann, Kathy A. January 30, 1993 700+ words
...s another way for a heart attack to occur: If a hunk...vessel, leading to a heart attack. People with a penchant...increased risk for a heart attack because their clotting...the observation that heart attacks surge in the predawn...
- Lipitor More Effective Than Simvastatin in Cutting Risk of Additional Heart...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 6, 2006 700+ words
...Having a Second Heart Attack and Took Lipitor...Experiencing Additional Heart Attacks Compared With...who had a recent heart attack and took Pfizer...significantly fewer heart attacks than patients...new or recurrent heart attack each year, ...
- Correction to Press Release: New Data Show Early Use of Anti-Platelet Therapy...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 19, 2003 700+ words
...before a patient is taken to the catheterization lab, reduced the risk of combined acute, in- hospital death or subsequent heart attack by approximately 14 percent." In updated data presented at the meeting, the reduction in such risk increased to 17 percent...
- QUICK ACTION FOR HEART ATTACKS.(the importance of calling for help when a heart...
- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post November 1, 2000 700+ words
...people who have heart attacks wait two hours...re having a heart attack, what you don...impaired. A heart attack is not a static...people survived heart attacks with little or...initial minutes, a heart attack can also trigger...
- ADDING MULTIMEDIA/Association for Eradication of Heart Attack Says Routine...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 4, 2004 700+ words
...First National Heart Attack Screening Guidelines...that found sudden heart attacks can be prevented...near-future heart attack. The AEHA estimates...screening for heart attacks would reveal that...experience a sudden heart attack within 12 ...
- A better heart attack therapy.(use of angioplasty to treat heart attacks)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Comarow, Avery May 6, 2002 700+ words
...deaths, repeat heart attacks, and strokes...tricky procedure to heart attack victims, in part...over treatment of heart attacks, the No. 1 killer...angioplasty on heart attack patients can be...you die after a heart attack will depend less...Fewer repeat ...
