Comments (5) | Post a CommentGood News About Estrogen Therapy After Menopause
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Sun, Jul 08, 2007, 6:56 pm PDTPostmenopausal women and their doctors are getting tired of trying to use "evidence-based medicine" to make decisions about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). At first, I and other physicians enthusiastically…Read More
Prehypertension Worse Than Smoking for Postmenopausal Women
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 6:09 am PDTPhysicians are finally coming to grips with the realization that they can no longer responsibly tell patients not to worry about their blood pressure if it is less than 140/90. More and more studies are…Read More
Women and Heart Disease, Part 2: Know the Latest Recs
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Mar 13, 2007, 7:38 pm PDTWhat do I like best about the 2007 update of the American Heart Association’s guidelines for women? For years, the National Cholesterol Education Program has promoted use of the Framingham risk score as the…Read More
Women and Heart Disease, Part 1: Aspirin Confusion
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 4:27 am PSTThe 2007 update of the American Heart Association's guidelines for women has led to some confusion regarding the use of aspirin. My wife read the following statement in an article about the new guidelines in…Read More
ACE Inhibitors Harmful in Pregnancy
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Mar 02, 2007, 9:33 am PSTBecause angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors — a class of medications used to lower high blood pressure — are associated with an increased risk of abnormal pregnancies, they are not prescribed for…Read More
What's Your Heart Disease Risk? Ask Mom
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Jun 06, 2006, 5:02 pm PDTYou may already know that your risk for some diseases goes up if a first-degree relative (parent, brother, sister, or child) has had the condition. We know, for example, that your risk for coronary heart…Read More
Heart Attacks Increase During Pregnancy
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Jun 02, 2006, 8:58 am PDTIf a pregnant woman were to complain of chest pain, my first thought would be that she's a young woman and almost certainly couldn't be having a heart attack. After all, women's levels of estrogen tend to…Read More
What's the Story on Low-fat Diets?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, May 19, 2006, 4:37 pm PDTFront page headlines in the Baltimore paper - and many others nationwide, I expect - screamed that low-fat diets do not help to prevent heart attacks (or breast or colon cancer) in postmenopausal women. We need…Read More
Prevention of Heart Attacks in Women
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Nov 17, 2005, 10:18 am PSTDaily aspirin does not appear to protect healthy women against heart attacks, despite many studies that show it may benefit men as much as stopping smoking or lowering their LDL cholesterol and blood pressure.…Read More
Heart Attacks in Women
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 1:33 pm PDTMost women, and many doctors, still don't recognize that as many women as men die of coronary heart disease and heart attacks. And women do not fare as well as men after a heart attack. In addition, a heart…Read More
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