Re: Pat-- Hysterectomy & Heart/Another Hysterectomy Thought

[Guest guest]

Hiya Pat & everybody -- do you have the cite for the one study

showing higher rate of heart disease even w/o removing ovaries during

hysterectomy? And the others showing premature ovarian " failure " ? I

have tried to find cites for this info without a lot of success.

I saw a hot-shot young cardiologist who specializes in womens' heart

health just before my myo (for, as it turned out, a totally innocuous

glitch on my pre-op EKG). We had a conversation about this topic, she

was very interested but had not heard of this info, and I would like

to be able to send it to her. She told me that there is also some

data showing that menopausal changes in hormone production are NOT a

factor in heart disease (that it's more a factor of aging) but that

these studies are not well known or publicized. She wasn't advocating

for this position, just mentioning that there is actually conflicting

info out there. Just FYI.

Sunny

[Guest guest]

> Hiya Pat & everybody -- do you have the cite for the one study

> showing higher rate of heart disease even w/o removing ovaries during

> hysterectomy? And the others showing premature ovarian " failure " ? I

> have tried to find cites for this info without a lot of success.

Please see the American Heart Association .pdf file located here:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/uterinefibroids/files/

This monograph references the following 3 major women's health studies

-- I have the citations here somewhere...and will post when I locate

them...unless someone else can do it first. Reading the monograph and

searching on pubmed might also get you the citations faster than my

digging through piles of research here!

check out this citation from 1982:

Prostacyclin from the uterus and woman's cardiovascular advantage.

Shelton D.

Prostaglandins Leukot Med. 1982 May;8(5):459-66.

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

ct&list_uids=7048335

and I really like this one...a real forboding study definitely

preceding the WHI/HRT studies/results currently playing themselves out....

Menopause and coronary heart disease. The Framingham Study.

Gordon T, Kannel WB, Hjortland MC, McNamara PM.

Ann Intern Med. 1978 Aug;89(2):157-61.

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

ct&list_uids=677576