Coronary heart disease hormone replacement therapy

Petitti D. Hormone replacement therapy and coronary heart disease four lessons. Int J Epidemiol 2004 33 461-3. 

Hence, it appears that hormone replacement can play a role in modifying certain risk factors associated with coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women, but the actual outcomes (heart attack, death) do not seem to be affected significantly by these hormonal interventions. Clearly, continued research in this area is needed to clarify if hormone replacement therapy can help decrease cardiac morbidity and mortality in certain postmenopausal women.60,121... 

Mobasseri S, Liebson PR, Klein LW Hormone therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators for prevention of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women estrogen replacement from the cardiologist s perspective. Cardiol Rev. 2004 12 287-298. 

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