Added HRT risk?

TALK of changing paradigms. You have heard me shooting off against Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for women before. Just one year ago, the US government stopped a major HRT study when it discovered that the therapy increases the risk of ovarian cancer, stroke and heart disease. The trial, called the Women’s Health Initiative, or WHI, was published in the July 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association and received extensive coverage.  

A second study echoed these results. Investigators at Duke University found that women who started HRT after having a heart attack were 44% more likely than those who never used HRT to have another heart attack in the following year.