Qu. re studies on hysterectomy impact on heart health

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone, anybody know the cite to the study or studies that show

that heart health is negatively impacted by even sub-total

hysterectomy, eg even if the ovaries are left in there is still a

negative impact on heart health when the uterus alone is removed?

I would like to show it to my young female cardiologist who has a

special interest in women's health. A small irregularity showed up on

my pre-op EKG in December, almost causing my surgery to be postponed.

I found myself meeting with this young woman cardio who was able to

confirm that this irregularity would have no impact on surgery or

anesthesia, and scheduled me for an echocardiogram after the surgery

to make sure there was nothing significant going on. Which was just

confirmed -- nothing wrong at all.

Anyway, I asked her if she had heard of studies showing that even

with ovaries intact there was negative impact on heart health after

removing the uterus. She said " no, that's very interesting. " She also

said there are many conflicting studies, not all well-known in the

medical community, on whether the decline in heart health among women

around the age of menopause is really hormone-related or is just age-

related. She doesn't believe we really know enough to be sure yet.

This is not the non-mainstream opinion. Of course, the fact that an

opinion is widely accepted doesn't mean it's right -- witness the

widespread assumption that synthetic hormones after menopause were

beneficial for heart health -- now shown not to be true.

Sunny