Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 44 (6) , 789-795
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.0000145988.95551.28
Abstract
Observational studies in humans and experimental studies in animals and isolated cells supported the widely held belief that hormone replacement therapy protects the cardiovascular system from disease. To nearly everyone's astonishment, the Women's Health Initiative Study and the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study overturned the conclusion that hormone replacement therapy protects the cardiovascular system and, in fact, supported the opposite view that such therapy may actually increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. This review addresses 2 questions: what went wrong and where do we go from here?Keywords
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