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Cardiac event risk low in young, healthy HRT users: when taken for menopausal symptoms. (Contrast with WHI Study Findings).
Publication: Internal Medicine News Publication Date: 15-JUN-03 Author: Worcester, Sharon
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COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group
NEW ORLEANS -- The risk of cardiovascular events is extremely low in healthy women in early menopause who rely on hormone therapy to treat their menopausal symptoms, according to pooled data from four large randomized clinical trials.
These findings contrast with those from other recent trials showing increased risk of coronary disease in the first year of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in women using certain regimens. The new findings suggest that those from the widely publicized Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study and the Heart an Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS), for example, do not...
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