Hormone Replacement Therapy
Notable Horomone Replacement Therapy Quotes
"How did it come to be that one of the most
commonly prescribed hormone replacement therapy drugs in the
country was used for decades in so many millions of women
before its long-term effects were ever studied systematically?
This is an example of a big gap in U.S. health care and science
policy regarding prescription drugs. If you are a company
and can demonstrate that your drug works well for some short-term
outcome, in this case it was the hot flashes of the menopause,
that drug can then come to be used in a very widespread way
for indications that really have nothing to do with the basis
on which it was originally approved.”
-Dr. Jerry Avorn, associate professor of medicine at Harvard
Medical School
“The risks of
breast cancer, stroke, heart attack and blood clots outweigh
the benefits for bones. And we have other drugs we can use to
prevent osteoporosis.”
-Dr. Maura Parker Quinlana, Univ. of Chicago Hospitals,
hormone replacement therapy specialist
“This is the biggest bombshell that ever hit in my 30-something
years in the menopause area.”
-Dr. Wulf Utian, executive director of the North American
Menopause Society of the new hormone replacement therapy findings
“This is definitive evidence.”
-Dr. Deborah Grady, UCSF of the hormone replacement therapy
study findings
“It is a global risk. This is such compelling evidence
that women and their physician ought to be finding a way to
get off estrogen.”
-Dr. Deborah Grady, UCSF of the hormone replacement therapy
study findings
“The study results will have a tremendous effect…they
overturn something we’ve been preaching as ‘preventive’
for all these years. All women need to be reevaluated and
counseled.”
-Dr. Michael Fleming, speaker of the congress for the
American Academy of Family Physicians
“We have long sought the answer to the question: Does
postmenopausal hormone therapy prevent heart disease and,
if it does, what are the risks? The bottom-line answer from
the Women’s Health Initiative is that this combined form
of hormone therapy is unlikely to benefit the heart.”
-Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director of the Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute
“We thought it would really prevent heart disease, which
is in fact the number one killer even in women. Now we know
it’s not only not going to prevent it, it may make it
worse.”
-Dr. Norman Lasser, New Jersey Medical School
“The study provides an important answer for generations
of health postmenopausal women to come: do not use estrogen/progestin
to prevent chronic disease.”
-Dr. Fletcher & Dr. Graham, Harvard Medical School
“The whole purpose of healthy women taking long-term
estrogen/progestin therapy is to preserve health and prevent
disease. The results of this study provide strong evidence
that the opposite is happening for important aspects of women’s
health, even if the absolute risk is low.”
-Dr. Fletcher & Dr. Graham, Harvard Medical School
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