Following on from the Women’s Health Initiative trials which were halted early because of the established risks of combined HRT, the continuation of the oestrogen only trial has also been halted early on Tuesday, 2nd of March, 2004 well before its planned completion in 2005. This was due to the increasing evidence that oestrogen alone does not appear to either increase or decrease the risk of heart disease and can in fact increase the risk of stroke, which the researchers stated as “being unacceptable in healthy women in a research study, especially given the lack of improvement in heart decrease risk”.
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http://www.whi.org/
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/8093416.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/05/1078464638331.html
Comment
Perhaps the researchers are overlooking one vital point which is the progesterone part of this equation. As Dr Lee says in his book, ‘What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause’, oestrogen should never be given without ‘natural’, meaning not synthetic as in HRT, but bio-identical as recognised in nature, progesterone. This is because it naturally balances the harmful effects of too much oestrogen, something the body, in its great wisdom, has known over millions of years.
Judy