Re: To Carla & All -- Heart Health/Chlamydia Pneumoniae

[Guest guest]

More citations on heart health and hysterectomy with/out oophorectomy

and before vs. after menopause:

Premenopausal hysterectomy and cardiovascular disease.

Centerwall BS.

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1981 Jan;139(1):58-61.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=7457522

Early menopause and the risk of myocardial infarction.Rosenberg L,

Hennekens CH, Rosner B, Belanger C, Rothman KJ, Speizer FE.

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1981 Jan;139(1):47-51.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=7457520

Menopause and the risk of coronary heart disease in women.

Colditz GA, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Rosner B, Speizer FE, Hennekens CH.

N Engl J Med. 1987 Apr 30;316(18):1105-10.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=3574358

Hysterectomy, oophorectomy, and heart disease risk factors in older women.

Kritz-Silverstein D, Barrett-Connor E, Wingard DL.

Am J Public Health. 1997 Apr;87(4):676-80.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=9146454

A natural experiment on the effects of ovarian hormones on

cardiovascular risk factors and stress reactivity: bilateral salpingo

oophorectomy versus hysterectomy only.

Stoney CM, Owens JF, Guzick DS, s KA.

Health Psychol. 1997 Jul;16(4):349-58.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=9237087

Risk of myocardial infarction after oophorectomy and hysterectomy.

Falkeborn M, Schairer C, Naessen T, Persson I.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2000 Aug;53(8):832-7.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=10942866

Usefulness of prior hysterectomy as an independent predictor of

Framingham risk score (The Women's Health Initiative).

Hsia J, Barad D, Margolis K, Rodabough R, McGovern PG, Limacher MC,

Oberman A, Smoller S; Women's Health Initiative Research Group.

Am J Cardiol. 2003 Aug 1;92(3):264-9.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\

ct&list_uids=12888128

A lot of conflicting research...probably time for a review of

literature with data analysis/weighting, at this point...

Also, I couldn't find the citations to the Women's Midlife Health

Project (by Dennerstein, et al) I was looking for tonight, but I do

think it contains even more relevant data on this issue. It might

have been info she presented at a conference I attended in the last

couple of years. Not sure.

BTW, Dennerstein has come a long, long way since her 1977 paper on

hysterectomy and sexual function -- and for the better in researching

and understanding the science of female sexual function, if you ask

me. Her early book on hysterectomy was a tosser. Patriarchal b.s.

based on more speculation that science. Ugh. Made a dent in the

sheetrock of my bedroom wall when I tossed it in a fit of anger quite

a few years ago now.... Scientific evidence has a way of changing

researcher perspective on a whole lot of issues...we just need to push

the envelope on demanding more of it!