Miles to go before we sleep …..
A September 18,2007 paper published by Stanford School of Medicine researcher Dr. Alison Rigby have found that less than one third of women interviewed were aware of the landmark study concerning hormone replacement therapy. The interviewers found that less than a third of all women interviewed knew anything about the Women’s Health Initiative Study which showed among other things that the combination of Provera and Premarin (PremPro) lead to more deaths from cardiovascular events than women who took no hormone replacement therapy.
We at LivingWell Integrative Healthcare have been talking about this study for quite some time and the results have been highly publicized in the popular press. It is sad that so many women are ignorant of these findings.
Hormone replacement therapy is an important issue and women need to have the latest information when considering this issue. It is amazing that this landmark study on HRT is so unknown to the vast majority of women.
We at LivingWell obviously have “miles to go before we sleep…” concerning educating our families, friends, patients and others regarding the results of these studies and the alternatives.
Just so you’ll know….
DrC
The full article referenced here can be found at the link below.
http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2007/september/WHI-awareness.html
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