Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january a Price of living longer hormones menopause is a fact of life for women in today world by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter there was a time when women didst worry about but that was a Century when hitting 50 was considered a woman died not Long after she lost the ability to have medical science has pushed us and most women will experience which has an average Onset age of and since at least the medical science has been butting in to fix All the things that women go weakening vaginal the ovaries no longer release eggs and Stop producing the sex hormones oestrogen and pharmaceutical companies Laud the benefits of oestrogen for All women and Media frequently carry stories about not just the but the risks of not taking and women Are decoding needed but theres a confusing cacophony of opinion and research out advocates who help women Weed through the barrage of information say there just int enough decoding done by doctors who prescribe the nurse clinician Teri Ibbott has been getting Between 35 and 50 Calls a week since the women Hospital opened its menopause clinic last frequently those Calls come from women who have been offered hormone replacement or by their doctors but feel uncomfortable taking a drug they know Little we have women coming to us specifically because Treyve been Given says gynaecologist Richard the clinics medical there there they dont know Why they need Boroditsky Ibbott work at health sciences Centre clinic dealing with menopause super Strogen on the a1 estimates of women Ori hot Range up to one in or 20 per says he says the More Likely number is Between 10 and 15 per the United states has a higher about 34 per in the with the publication of the Book oestrogen feminine oestrogen use took off in the United says Theresa a nursing professor at the University of Manitoba who also teaches women then in studies showed a significant increase of uterine cancer in these says who has studied the topic for 15 produced at the Start of a woman monthly builds up the endometrial lining As cells Are Laid when at mid Cycle progesterone kicks the lining is that it was found that giving oestrogen in postmenopausal women Laid Down cells that were not shed because progesterone was these cells can become so progesterone was added to hormone replacement then the medical studies indicating risks and benefits of oestrogen was linked to breast progesterone to heart oestrogen was found to prevent the thinning of osteoporosis older and it can reduce the incidence of heart disease by up to 50 per cent in these More recent studies have indicated that the benefits of oestrogen on the heart Are not lost when progesterone is included in the but Boroditsky feels the jury is still out on not for All both Boroditsky and gynaecologist Margaret Burnett insist that oestrogen is not for every for at risk of heart disease or osteoporosis or women whose menopausal symptoms Are benefits outweigh the they stress that what women need is information to make their own for research has indicated Short term use of oestrogen has no Lon term Benefit on Bone and Burnett warns there is evidence that once therapy is women can experience a rapid decay of while that sounds like a life sentence of Burnett sees it think of it As a life that kind of talk Burns critics like Theresa George says hot is tampering with the natural flow of replacing oestrogen at a time of life when the body is purposely slowing Down on the hormone is retooling the body in an unnatural says she feels the Media and medical hype pressure All women to buy into George says we Are pushing these therapies on women when we have not answered some important in one in 14 women developed breast that number is one in in not saying this is because of George in saying we dont wanted your Holiday photos 1 photofinishing 24 4x6 Glossy prints Stock up on presidents film made by one of the top two film companies in the world 400 film is your Best Choice for Flash shots Iso the real your Best value in photo finishing patients decide by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter if youve got a hot you dont need to the menopause clinic opened quietly at the health sciences Cen tres women Hospital last Winter and on word Mouth some 300 women found their Way to the Well of information at the end of a Telephone nurse clinician Teri whose specially is in or the Way hormones work in our answers the Calls for for healthy Ibbott is Able to explain who can Benefit from is Trogen and who might want to stay away from and the such As family history of heart that might put a woman at High then she refers these women Back to their family the premise of the nurse managed care clinic is to have women make their own decisions on whats Best for screening the clinic targets women at risk for medical like heart Dis ease or or who Are suf Fering severe Sid effects of Meno Many of these women have already had health problems and they can be complicated when Hor Mone Levels drop in these people Are screened by in who will do initial medical test ing and take medical then refer the women to she says of the 300 Calls she has taken since about 105 were asked to come in for screen and about 50 of those went on to see Richard the clinics medical Boroditsky says the clinic is unique in that it is a share care approach to a nurse acts As an entry Point doctors Are used Only when special medical attention is opinions Are offered and the client decides what to its a different concept to the Way we look after says he says data show 50 per cent of need More details Teri Ibbott can be reached at the menopause clinic at 7871903 the women health clinic at 419 Graham Avenue holds general information sessions the first tuesday of every the clinic can be reached at the women prescribed oestrogen Stop after six months because of Sideen because they Are confused by All the conflicting information on hormone replacement therapy or because they Lack when women Are supplied with All the information and Are allowed to decide they continue the oestrogen he for even when they Are ing risks of oestrogen induced heart disease or it is not a Clear he one he was nicely at High risk for heart attack or she was had High blood High cholesterol lev was diabetic and had a Strong family history of cardiovascular Dis he came Back a week later and said she was not going on he Boroditsky said the who worked in a nursing saw the effects of aging in those women who were demented or incontinent and thought Long and hard about the Quality of she what youre really ask ing what i have to do is decide How i want to id rather have a heart attack or a that highlighted an important ment in the ability to prolong he Are we really doing women a favor if we keep them on oestrogen until there 80 or 90 and they All develop dementia or alzheimer that for women to Boroditsky s Kyj fire ruins destroys two cars afire caused damage to a West Kil 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