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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Hypertension
- Source :
- Blood Pressure. 9:246-249
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2000.
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Abstract
- For many years, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) was considered to be contraindicated in postmenopausal women with hypertension and many such women were excluded from HRT because of concerns that HRT may have an adverse effect on blood pressure. This perception was mainly due to the effects of oral contraceptive drugs, especially the oestrogen component, in increasing blood pressure. Differences exist between the formulation and doses of oestrogen preparations used, either as oral contraceptives in premenopausal women (in whom high-dose synthetic oestrogens are used) or as HRT in postmenopausal women (in whom low "replacement" doses of natural oestrogens are used). This is not inconsequential, as postmenopausal women represent the largest category of women at risk for hypertension. The aim of this review is to give a balanced view on the effects of HRT on blood pressure in postmenopausal women.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Hormone Replacement Therapy
medicine.drug_class
Cross-sectional study
Physiology
Blood Pressure
Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal
Cohort Studies
Risk Factors
Prevalence
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Adverse effect
Progesterone
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Gynecology
Estradiol
business.industry
Contraindications
Estrogen Replacement Therapy
Estrogens
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Menopause
Cross-Sectional Studies
Blood pressure
Cardiovascular Diseases
Estrogen
Transgender hormone therapy
Hypertension
Female
sense organs
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16511999 and 08037051
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Blood Pressure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4aff594a60abb466dcef7c3c4db81eb3