Clinical Aspects Hormone Replacement Therapy’s Effect on Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Background: hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is still a controversial therapy, its effects over cardiovascular system being contradictory. Methods and material: we evaluated the HRT’s effects on cardiovascular risk factors on a 238 women (38 with and 200 without HRT) sample, between April 2007 and April 2008. For every woman, we investigated the cardiovascular risk factors’ presence. Results: at the beginning, the prevalence of smokers was greater in women with HRT and those without HRT were more frequently hypertensive. After a year, we do not recorded statistical significant differences between the two groups regarding the prevalence of diabetes mellitus, overweight, obesity, smoking, or hypertension. Conclusion: even if we can not say for sure that HRT is influencing in a direct way the cardiovascular risk factors, we registered favorable changes of those, an important step being represented by the recognition of cardiovascular risk. In the same time, we did not registered important differences regarding the evolution of risk factors.