Re: "Statins caused my kidney failure"
From: Dr Chaos (mbkennelSPAMBEGONE_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 07/11/04
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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:47:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:39:58 GMT, George Conklin <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> "Dr Chaos" <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:slrncf1l41.674.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu...
>> On 10 Jul 2004 14:01:08 -0700, Zee <zwalanga@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > What you've said is very true George, and bears repeating, even in
>> > this very thread. Until we all know more and understand more about how
>> > drugs are researched and marketed, and use our voices to change and
>> > improve the system, health care will be about stockholers share. In
>> > fact in the case you mention, it was the Women's Health Initiative
>> > which blew the whistle on HRT. No one else cared. Often that's all it
>> > takes to make change; someone affected, who cared.
>> > Zee
>>
>> In fact, the very most recent findings are that the "new" research
>> (showing big problems with HRT) had very serious methodological
>> problems of its own in patient selection.
>>
>> In other words, we don't know.
>>
>>
> This is the big lie for Usenet.
Another example of Usenet conspiratoria.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3845761.stm
Doubt raised over HRT heart study
There is confusion over the effect of HRT
A major study which cast doubt on the safety of hormone
replacement therapy may have been flawed, say scientists.
The US Women's Health Initiative research found HRT use increased the
risk of heart attacks and strokes.
The study, involving 16,000 women was stopped three years early in
2002, and many women were scared off using HRT.
However, Yale University scientists now say design flaws meant that
study could not have detected any positive impact of HRT on heart
health.
Women have suffered unnecessarily because of this. Dr John Stevenson
It is estimated that 340,000 British women have stopped taking HRT
since the negative publicity.
It had been widely thought that a common form of HRT using the female
sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone could help protect against
heart attacks and stroke.
The WHI study seemed to suggest the reverse was actually the case.
However, the new research, led by Dr Frederick Naftolin, argues the
study was too small to draw any statistically meaningful conclusions.
It says most women in the study were in their 60s and 70s, whereas
previous research had suggested HRT provided protection from heart
disease for women in their early 50s.
Separate research had also indicated that the heart benefit of HRT was
lost if treatment was delayed until years after the start of the
menopause.
Even the youngest women in the study had gone at least a year without
a period, and most had gone many years.
The Yale team said more research was needed to pin down the exact
effect of HRT on heart disease - and that it would be wrong to dismiss
the idea that it could prevent heart attacks and stroke.
Confusion
Dr John Stevenson, of the British Menopause Society, said conflicting
research had served only to confuse and frighten women off taking HRT.
"We had two reasons to give HRT; for relief of menopausal symptoms and
for the prevention of osteoporosis.
"We knew that there was a small risk of breast cancer and a very very
small risk of blood clots, but the benefits far outweighed the
risks. And nothing has changed at all."
"This whole issue has been a huge disservice to women. Women have
suffered unnecessarily because of this."
Karen Winterhalter, of Women's Health Concern, said the number of new
HRT prescriptions was down by a million this year.
She said the WHI study - and the later "Million Women" trial which
highlighted the increased risk of breast cancer - had had a huge
impact.
She said: "We and others have been saying all along that the WHI
didn't recruit the right type of women."
In February, Professor Susan Johnson, of the University of Iowa, a WHI
investigator, said the study's message had been widely misunderstood,
and that HRT was effective treatment of women with severe menopausal
symptoms.
The research is published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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