Circulatory

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==Arguments==
#Premarin, the hormone replacement treatment made from pregnant mares urine increases the risk of blood clots, stroke, high blood pressure and heart disease
#Vegetarians have lower cholesterol levels
#Vegetarians have lower blood pressure
==Objections==
Nil
==References for the Arguments==
#http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/GM02Autumn/GM02Autumn08.html http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/menopause.html Colditz GA, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, et al. Type of postmenopausal hormone use and risk of breast cancer: 12-year follow-up from the Nurses’ Health Study. Cancer Causes and Control 1992;3:433-9. Yang CP, Daling JR, Band PR, Gallagher RP, White E, Weiss NS. Noncontraceptive hormone use and risk of breast cancer. Cancer Causes and Control 1992;3:475-9 Bergkvist L, Adami HO, Persson I, Hoover R, Schairer C. The risk of breast cancer after estrogen and estrogen-progestin replacement. N Engl J Med 1989;321:293-7.
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==References for the Objections==
==Examples and Anecdotes==
Ref One. Roger R. Williams. "Diet, Genes, Early Heart Attacks, and High Blood Pressure," in Nutrition in the 90's: Current Controversies and Analysis, ed. Frank N. Kotsonis and Maureen A. Mackey (New York: Marcel Drekker, Inc., 1994), 25-44.
Ref Two. Ibid.
Ref Three. Hans Diehl, "Reversing Coronary Heart Disease," in Western Diseases: Their Dietry Prevention and Reversibility, ed. N.J. Temple and D.P. Burkitt (Totawa, N.J.: Humana Press, 1994), 237-316.
Ref Four. Ibid.
Ref Five. Jay N. Cohn and William B. Kannal, "Cardiovascular Medicine," in Preventitive Cardiology, ed. James T. Willerson and Jay N. Cohn (New York: Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1995). 1809-1827.
Ref Six. Diehl, "Reversing Coronary Heart Disease."
Ref Seven. Peter Sleight, "Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the Effects of Intervention," American Heart Journal 121, no. 3 (1991): 990-995.
Ref Eight. Hans U. Kloer, "Diet and Coronary Heart Disease," Archives of Internal Medicine 65 (1989): S13-S21.
Ref Nine. Diehl, "Reversing Coronary Heart Disease."
Ref Ten. Doralie L. Segal, "The Rationale for Controlling Dietry Lipids in the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease," Bulletin of PAHO 24 no. 2(1990): 197-209.
Ref Eleven. John C. LaRosa, "AHA Medical/Scientific Statement Special Report: The Cholesterol Facts: A Summary of the Evidence Relating to Dietry Fats, Serum Cholesterol, and Coronary Heart Disease," Circulation 81, no 5(1990): 1721-1733.
Ref Twelve. Cohn and Kannal, "Cardiovascular Medicine."
Ref Thirteen. Scott M. Grundy, "Cholesterol," in Cardiovascular Medicine, ed. James T. Willerson and Jay N. Cohn (New York: Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1995), 1846-1865.
Ref Fourteen. Diehl, "Reversing Coronary Heart Disease."
Ref Fifteen. H. Kasteloot, "Dietary Fat and Health: The Epidemiological Evidence," Acta Cardiologica 44, no. 6(1989): 446-448.
Ref Sixteen. Kasteloot, "Dietry Fat".
Ref Seventeen. Diehl, "Reversing Coronary Heart Disease."
Ref Eighteen. Dean Ornish, Dr Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease (New York: Ivy Books, 1990, 1996), 260.
Ref Nineteen. Department of Human Services: Department of Agriculture, The Relationship Between Dietary Cholesterol and Blood Cholesterol and Human Health and Nutrition, a report to the Congress persuant to the Food Security Act of 1985 P.L. 99-198, Subtitle B, Section 1453. (Washington, D.C., 1987).
Ref Twenty. Ibid
Ref Twenty-one. Herman A. Tyroler, "Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology," in Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology," in Nutrition and Biotechnology in Heart Disease and Cancer, ed. John B. Longenecker, David Kritchevsky, and Marc K. Drezner (New York: Plenum Press, 1995), 7-19; H. Kesteloot, "Nutrition and Health: The Conclusions of the B.I.R.N.H. Study," Acta Cardiologica 44 no. 2(1989): 183-194; Segal, "Controlling Dietry Lipids;" Sleight, "Cardiovascular Risk Factors."
Ref Twenty-two. Department of Health and Human Services; Department of Agriculture, The Relationship Between Dietry Cholesterol and Blood Cholesterol.
Ref Twenty-three. Ibid.
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Ref Twenty-six. Kasteloot, "Dietary Fat."
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Ref Twenty-nine. Elizabeth J. Lipp, Donna Deane, and Nancy Trimble, "Cardiovascular Disease Risks in Adolescent Males," Applied Nursing Research 9, no. 3(August 1996): 102-107.
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