just another test - i'm nothing if not stubborn! please ignore.=09

hi all,

the news hound is back, although a bit late. and somewhere along the way,=
 she lost the=20
caps key again.

i just struggled through an almost 'lost' weekend due to the dreaded fema=
le/hormone/pd=20
'freeze-ups'. [i.e. when sinemet mysteriously transforms itself into baby=
 aspirin]

and then the recent messages about female hormones have started me diggin=
g through the=20
paterson/parkinsn archives for related posts.

i've got some going back to dec. 94.

i thought i'd post a 'summary thread' of them, since we have so many new =
members. maybe=20
someone out there will make a connection that will lead to ...?

whaddya'll think?  about the 'summary thread', i mean?  if it's not too l=
ong?


janet


ps
i thought these two news reports on the same subject were revealing in th=
eir=20
differences.


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Post-menopausal estrogen is said to counter Alzheimer's
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Copyright =A9 1996 Nando.net
Copyright =A9 1996 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK (Aug 16, 1996 2:17 p.m. EDT) -- Taking estrogen after menopause =
may reduce a=20
woman's risk of developing Alzheimer's or delay onset of the disease, sci=
entists said=20
Thursday.

In a study of 1,124 elderly women being published Saturday in The Lancet,=
 a British=20
medical journal, and announced at a news conference at Columbia-Presbyter=
ian Medical=20
Center in Manhattan, researchers found that only 5.8 percent of women who=
 had taken=20
estrogen developed Alzheimer's, compared with 16.3 percent of women who h=
ad not used the=20
hormone.

With each passing year of the five-year study, only 2.7 percent of the wo=
men who had=20
used estrogen developed Alzheimer's as against 8.4 percent of those who h=
ad not used it.=20
Moreover, the longer the women took estrogen, the lower their risk.

Black, White and Hispanic women benefited equally from estrogen, as did w=
omen with=20
varying educational and socioeconomic levels.


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