Vascular Effects of Early versus Late Postmenopausal Treatment with Estradiol
Author(s) -
Howard N. Hodis,
Wendy J. Mack,
Victor W. Henderson,
Donna Shoupe,
Matthew J. Budoff,
Juliana Hwang-Levine,
Yanjie Li,
Feng Mei,
Laurie Dustin,
Naoko Kono,
Frank Z. Stanczyk,
Robert H. Selzer,
Stanley P. Azen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1505241
Subject(s) - menopause , hormone therapy , estrogen , medicine , estrogen therapy , hormone , postmenopausal women , endocrinology , disease , hormone replacement therapy (female to male) , estrogen replacement therapy , physiology , breast cancer , testosterone (patch) , cancer
Data suggest that estrogen-containing hormone therapy is associated with beneficial effects with regard to cardiovascular disease when the therapy is initiated temporally close to menopause but not when it is initiated later. However, the hypothesis that the cardiovascular effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy vary with the timing of therapy initiation (the hormone-timing hypothesis) has not been tested.
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom