Fw: Unreliable study hid dangers of HRT

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Subject: Unreliable study hid dangers of HRT

> NOTE FROM ILENA:

> For years, a very good friend to our implanted Support Group, Sherrill

> Sellman, has been writing about and speaking out on the the harzards of

HRT

> ...

>

> Please visit the link below where Sherrill interviewed me for her

newsletter

> ... and visit the links to her website and excellent information.

>

> Bravo to her for being so courageous to speak out on the dangers while the

> Pharmaceutical Giants were hiding them and may God protect her.

>

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> February 27, 2004

>

> Unreliable study hid dangers of HRT

> By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor

>

> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1017726,00.html

>

> THE failure of hormone replacement therapy to protect against heart

disease

> and strokes ought to have been realised much sooner, a leading

> epidemiologist has said.

> Experiments such as the Nurses' Study, which followed 120,000 nurses for

30

> years, found that those on HRT were less likely to have heart disease, but

> observational studies are often unreliable, as they have many sources of

> bias.

>

>

>

> Klim McPherson, professor of epidemiology at Bristol University, and Elina

> Hemminki, of the Finnish Health and Social Services department, examined

all

> the short-term trials. They then extracted unpublished data from drug

> companies, using the law in Finland. The results showed that, far from

> cutting the risk of heart disease, HRT increased it by almost 80 per cent.

>

> The moral, say the authors, is that all data, including that from the drug

> companies, ought to be available and better used.

>

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> http://humanticsfoundation.com/sellmaninterviewsrosenthal.htm

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