The Cardioprotective Role of HRT: A Clinical Update

Download or read book The Cardioprotective Role of HRT: A Clinical Update written by C.M. Beale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the cardioprotective role of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women and in women who have undergone bilateral oophorectomy. Author Collins has pioneered these studies and has also identified syndrome X, topic of one of the book's chapters. The book presents an objective analysis of all available data on the relationship between hormone replacement and cardiovascular risk, vascular effects of hormone replacement, and potential mechanisms of vascular function. It covers both the causative and therapeutic roles of estrogen in syndrome X and contains clinical chapters on the route of administration and on current medical opinion about the cardioprotective role of HRT. *Syndrome X is typical exertional angina pectoris, positive exercise test, and normal coronary arteriograms in the absence of coronary artery disease, systemic hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, or valvar heart disease.