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stroke risk
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Tibolone study halted due to stroke risk
RESEARCH examining the effect of tibolone (Livial) on the risk of vertebral and clinical fractures has been halted early due to increased stroke risk, underlining the importance of selecting therapies to suit individual patients, a leading endocrinologist says. Professor Susan Davis, professor of women’s health at Monash University, Melbourne, was commenting on the Long-term Intervention on Fractures with Tibolone (LIFT) study, which found tibolone doubled older women’s stroke risk. However, the study, funded by Organon (now part of Schering-Plough), also showed that tibolone decreased the risk of fracture, breast cancer and colon cancer among more than 4500 ...
Spouse smoking stroke risk ‘definitive’
HAVING a spouse who smokes significantly increases stroke risk, new research has found. A US prospective study of 16,225 healthy men and women, aged 50 years or older, found that over nine years those who had never smoked had a 42% greater risk of stroke if their spouse currently smoked, compared to those with non-smoking spouses. Former smokers married to current smokers had a 72% higher risk of stroke than those whose spouses had never smoked. The association remained after adjusting for age, education, wealth, obesity, alcohol use and diagnosed hypertension, diabetes or heart disease. Professor ...