HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY’S EFFECT ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS
Abstract:
Background: hormone replacement therapy
(HRT) is still a controversial therapy, its effects over
cardiovascular system being contradictory. Methods and
material: we evaluated the HRT’s effects on
cardiovascular risk factors on a 238 women (38 with and
200 without HRT) sample, between April 2007 and April
2008. For every woman, we investigated the
cardiovascular risk factors’ presence. Results: at the
beginning, the prevalence of smokers was greater in
women with HRT and those without HRT were more
frequently hypertensive. After a year, we do not recorded
statistical significant differences between the two groups
regarding the prevalence of diabetes mellitus, overweight,
obesity, smoking, or hypertension. Conclusion: even if we
can not say for sure that HRT is influencing in a direct
way the cardiovascular risk factors, we registered
favorable changes of those, an important step being
represented by the recognition of cardiovascular risk. In
the same time, we did not registered important differences
regarding the evolution of risk factors.
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