Hormones and Your Heart

Heart, lipids and hormones

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in general population. Besides well-known risk factors such as hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance and dyslipidemia, growing evidence suggests that hormonal changes in various endocrine diseases also impact the cardiac morphology and function. Recent studies highlight the importance of ectopic intracellular myocardial and pericardial lip...

Wine and your heart.

Letter to Editor: We read with interest the AHA consensus statement “Wine and Your Heart” by Goldberg et al.1 Observational studies suggest an inverse association between the consumption of alcoholic beverages and coronary artery disease. It has been suggested that red wine might be more protective than other alcoholic beverages, although observational studies have wide variations in methodolog...

Are You Responsible for Your Hormones?

Postmenopausal hormones and heart disease.

Multiple observational studies have reported that postmenopausal women who use estrogen have a lower rate of coronary heart disease (CHD) events than women who do not use estrogen (1). Meta-analyses of these epidemiologic findings suggest a 35% to 50% reduction in risk of coronary disease among women using estrogen compared to nonusers (2,3). These findings are supported by plausible biologic m...

Wearing your heart in your sleeve?

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