{"id":3283,"date":"2022-02-18T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a4pc.org\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:43:20","slug":"meta-analysis-contradicts-faulty-nasem-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/2022-02\/meta-analysis-contradicts-faulty-nasem-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-analysis contradicts faulty NASEM report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is simply no evidence that compounded hormones pose an increased clinical risk compared to FDA-approved products. That is the unambiguous conclusion of a paper published in the prestigious <em>Menopause: Journal of The North American Menopause Society<\/em> (online now, in print in April or May).<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/menopausejournal\/Abstract\/9000\/Safety_and_efficacy_of_compounded_bioidentical.96817.aspx\">Safety and efficacy of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy (cBHT) in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women<\/a>\u201d examined 40 articles covering 29 trials that compared cBHT with factory-made hormone products. (Disclosure: APC board member A.J. Day is one of the paper\u2019s seven authors.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/menopausejournal\/Abstract\/9000\/Safety_and_efficacy_of_compounded_bioidentical.96817.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/files\/menopause.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"auto\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"25\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>The result: In the few cases where there <em>was<\/em> enough data, the review found cBHT \u201cis not associated with adverse changes.\u201d This casts further doubt on the accuracy of the report from the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine on the same issue \u2014 a report based on far less data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the kind of comprehensive review we would have expected from NASEM,\u201d said APC CEO Scott Brunner, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">cae<\/span>. \u201cInstead, NASEM looked at 13 studies that focused on only four hormones, and yet it somehow reached a conclusion \u2014 \u2018all compounded hormones are dangerous\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s entirely unsupported by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What it <em>was<\/em> supported by, as we\u2019ve shown thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/smokinggun\">a 2021 FOIA request<\/a>, were FDA\u2019s marching orders.<\/p>\n<p>You might think that, when real evidence comes to light, FDA might reassess its position while it gathers actual evidence. Instead, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/2022-02\/fda-doubles-down-on-nasem-report\/\"><em>check this out<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper finds there is simply no evidence that compounded hormones pose an increased clinical risk compared to FDA-approved products.<br \/><span class=\"read-more\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/2022-02\/meta-analysis-contradicts-faulty-nasem-report\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizkid.com\/a4pc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}