Quotes about estrogen (16 Quotes)




    But you also have to bear in mind that there still is an increased risk of stroke, dementia and blood clots in the legs and a reduced risk for fractures. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration recommendation that estrogen should not be used for the purpose of heart disease still applies, and the recommendation that women who need to take it for menopausal symptoms should take the lowest dose for the shortest duration possible still holds.

    Menopausal women who might have been candidates for estrogen plus progestin should now focus on well-proven treatments to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, including measures to prevent and control high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and obesity,



    If the patch is delivering too much estrogen, then it may need to be redesigned, ... Women should not just take off their patch they risk pregnancy. If they are worried and want to change off the patch, they can wait to get something else.

    We're not suggesting at this point that women use estrogen for the express purpose of preventing cardiovascular disease. But this does suggest that more research is needed on younger women and recently menopausal women to explore this question. There may

    The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.



    Women who need to take estrogen because of severe menopausal symptoms should take the smallest amount of dose, for the shortest possible amount of time.

    We all believe that oral contraceptives protect against ovarian cancer, ... Most of us believe that estrogen protects against coronary heart disease. We all believe that smoking causes lung cancer.


    There's a lot of estrogen going on here. I'm not saying it's a good thing, either. Women are very catty and very calculated. They tend to have ulterior motives.

    These new findings suggest the possibility that if a woman starts hormone therapy sooner rather than later, perhaps we will see some of the protective effects on the heart that natural estrogen provides - or at least it won't increase the risk of cardiovascular-related harm.

    There is a great deal of deference, a great deal of respect shown to one another, and a great deal of teamwork. There is also a lot of competitiveness and a lot of testosterone and estrogen, and that's just wonderful.



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