It will help people to understand that the weight gain we're seeing in this country is not caused by the lower-fat diets. |
We cannot rule out some small residual influence of the surgery itself on cardiovascular events. But it looks as if women with hysterectomies have more heart disease because women who get hysterectomies also have more risk factors. |
We wanted to see if women who had hysterectomies differed in some way from those who did not, and whether the hysterectomy itself had an influence on heart disease. |