Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heart attacks are the leading killer of women, claiming six times the number of lives lost to breast cancer...
...Female breasts, he says, may also influence irregularities on thallium stress tests; simply put, the breast tissue gets in the way of the imaging technique. Doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City have apparently circumvented that problem by using the PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which they say is highly accurate in detecting even minor heart damage in women...
...instigation, the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH is preparing to launch the Women's Health Initiative, a $500 million, 14-year study of 140,000 postmenopausal women. The study will explore the effects of diet, smoking and other factors on women's risk of developing heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and breast and colon cancers. The study will also evaluate the effects of hormone replacement therapy: providing women with supplemental estrogen or with estrogen plus progestin after menopause...
...studies have already suggested that these supplements reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 30% to 50%, but cardiologists and their patients sometimes shy away from them; larger doses, like those used in early birth-control pills, are known to increase the risk of endometrial and breast cancer. Still, many doctors, considering the even greater risk of coronary- artery disease in the absence of estrogen, now endorse the supplementary therapy. One strong advocate is Framingham's Castelli, who calls the evidence of its efficacy in protecting against both heart disease and osteoporosis "overwhelming...
Meanwhile, a study in the Lancet appears to strengthen another suspected breast-cancer link. Women whose mothers had toxemia during pregnancy (a form of high blood pressure that can also lower estrogen levels) are 75% less likely to get breast cancer as adults. High estrogen levels, in other words, are still a danger signal...