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HEALTH: Another risk is linked to long-term estrogen use; McDonald's dumps Super Size fries...
There was a sense of deja vu surrounding the announcement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week that it had called a halt to a major study of the health effects of long-term estrogen use. Didn't we already know that hormone-replacement therapy, when administered for more than a couple of years, was a bad idea...
Well, yes and no. Two years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...
...difference between the two treatments is crucial because estrogen alone is taken by a lot more women in the U.S. (a total of 5.6 million, if you're counting) than the estrogen-progestin combination (2 million). Since estrogen in the absence of progestin increases a woman's risk of uterine cancer, it's given to women who have had a hysterectomy...
...experiencing a collective emotional catharsis. Yet last Sunday, as Carrie Bradshaw and her “Sex and the City” pals dished out a final kiss-off to their adoring audience, there I was—an island of male unease surrounded by a tempestuous sea of estrogen...