AR-News: (U.K.) Early Data Could Have Shown HRT Risks: Researchers

[Mary Finelli]

EARLY DATA COULD HAVE SHOWN HRT RISKS: RESEARCHERS
Reuters, Stephen Pincock, Feb. 27, 2004

complete article at:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4457319


London - The potential risks of hormone replacement therapy could have been 
exposed much earlier if data from trials conducted by pharmaceutical 
companies had been made publicly available, according to an article in the 
British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week.

The two authors remind readers that the US Women's Health Initiative (WHI) 
trial was stopped in 2002 when data showed that after 5 years the balance of 
benefits from combined hormone replacement therapy did not compensate for an 
increased risk of heart-related events.

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