No Heart Counseling for HRT Users
May 1st, 2010
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The American Heart Association has updated its recommendation regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Their current recommendation states that physicians should not base the decision to use HRT based upon heart disease prevention. This recommendation is the result of a number of relatively recent studies refuting earlier data about the protective effects of HRT on the cardiovascular system.
Most gynecologists prescribe HRT for the treatment of menopause symptoms, such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and sleep disturbances. However, from 1995 until 1999 the American Heart Association had recommended that physicians consider estrogen for all postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease. Read more…