acceptable risk
Tuesday, July 9th, 2002 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapis_lazuli022http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20020709/sc_nm/health_hormones_dc_1
Long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy (estrogen and progestin) increased otherwise healthy women's risk of stroke by 41%, heart attack by 29% and breast cancer by 24%.
What I find most interesting about this study is that it was halted 3 years early because it was seen as endangering the patients... though many women are on HRT for far longer than 5-8 years.
Considering that I only acted on my own personal decision against long-term HRT two months ago (to the day!), I'm deep in thought this morning.
It's not that I'm taking the new study as Absolute Truth: studies like this have been done before, and results have been conflicting. It's not that this is news to me, either: I did my own research before my surgery, and the increased risk of further problems down the road (and I would have needed LONG, long-term use of HRT, around the 30-50 year range) was exactly why I chose to leave my ovaries where they are.
I won't say I feel sudden justification in my decision, because this isn't anything I didn't already know... but it is always interesting when new research agrees with what you've already worked out for yourself.
Long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy (estrogen and progestin) increased otherwise healthy women's risk of stroke by 41%, heart attack by 29% and breast cancer by 24%.
What I find most interesting about this study is that it was halted 3 years early because it was seen as endangering the patients... though many women are on HRT for far longer than 5-8 years.
Considering that I only acted on my own personal decision against long-term HRT two months ago (to the day!), I'm deep in thought this morning.
It's not that I'm taking the new study as Absolute Truth: studies like this have been done before, and results have been conflicting. It's not that this is news to me, either: I did my own research before my surgery, and the increased risk of further problems down the road (and I would have needed LONG, long-term use of HRT, around the 30-50 year range) was exactly why I chose to leave my ovaries where they are.
I won't say I feel sudden justification in my decision, because this isn't anything I didn't already know... but it is always interesting when new research agrees with what you've already worked out for yourself.
