BHRT in the news

Dr. Pacholec enjoys keeping her patients up to date on the most recent research regarding medical weight loss, hormone replacement therapy and anti-aging medicine. You can find a summary of the study findings from a recent report regarding BHRT below, or request a copy in person at your next consultation with Dr. Pacholec in either her St Petersburg, FL or Lutz, FL office location.

The latest report (12 September 2017) from the Women’s Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trials revealed that post-menopausal women treated with hormone therapy had NO increased risk for all-cause, cardiovascular or cancer mortality over a follow-up of 18 years. This was reported by JoAnn E. Manson, MD of Harvard Medical School. The study included 27,347 participants in two randomized, double-blind placebo controlled trials.

The data from this research fully supports the newly released 2017 position statement on hormone therapy from the North American Menopause Society. This new information will hopefully alleviate concerns that many patients and physicians have about the initiation of hormone therapy and its potential to cause cancer.

Summary of the study findings can be found here