OBJECTIVE The effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can affect many aspects relevant to cardiovascular disease, including vasomotor function, inflammation, and hemostasis. Recent studies have demonstrated that current doses of HRT exert a mixture of both protective and adverse effects. In the current study, we compared the effects of lower doses of HRT (L-HRT) and conventional doses of H...

BACKGROUND The risks/benefits balance of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the periodontal status of a postmenopausal women group receiving HRT and to determine the effects of HRT on clinical measures of periodontal disease. MATERIAL/METHODS Ninety-one postmenopausal women, 52 taking HRT (HRT+) and 39 not taking HRT (HRT-), completed the s...

BACKGROUND Heart retransplant (HRT) recipients represent a growing number of transplant patients. The impact of concurrent kidney transplants (KTs) in this population has not been well studied. We tested the hypothesis that recipients of HRT with concurrent KT (HRT-KT) would have worse survival than recipients of HRT alone. METHODS AND RESULTS A retrospective analysis of the United Network of...

PURPOSE To investigate the agreement between neuroretinal rim area (RA) measurements using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph I (HRT Classic) and Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II (HRT II). To compare apparent RA changes in follow-up series of HRT II topographies when using either an HRT Classic or HRT II mean topography as baseline. DESIGN Cross-sectional study and "no-change," short time series s...

As general awareness of menopausal symptoms has increased, there been a rapid rise in prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which is — course good thing, as more perimenopausal women than ever are able to seek help control their symptoms. However, experts concerned that being prescribed too […]

OBJECTIVES On the basis of epidemiological and experimental data, it has been supposed that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) inhibits atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women. This randomized controlled trial examined whether 1 mg 17beta-estradiol daily, combined cyclically with 0.025 mg gestodene in every month (HRT 1), or in every third month (HRT 2) slows the increase of intima-media thickne...