Effects of acute hormone therapy on recurrent ischemia in postmenopausal women with unstable angina.
Effects of acute hormone therapy on recurrent ischemia in postmenopausal women with unstable angina.
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急性激素治疗对患有不稳定心绞痛的绝经后妇女复发性缺血的影响。
DOI:
10.1016/s0735-1097(01)01724-7
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
24
通讯作者:
Gerstenblith,Gary
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作者:
Schulman,StevenP;Thiemann,DavidR;Ouyang,Pamela;Chandra,NishaC;Schulman,DouglasS;Reis,StevenE;Terrin,Michael;Forman,Sandra;deAlbuquerque,CiceroPiva;Bahr,RaymondD;Townsend,SusanN;Cosgriff,Rosalie;Gerstenblith,Gary
ObjectivesWe tested whether acute hormone therapy reduces ambulatory electrocardiographic ischemia in postmenopausal (PMP) women with unstable angina (UA).BackgroundEndothelial dysfunction contributes to the pathophysiology of UA. Acute estrogen administration improves endothelial function in PMP women with coronary artery disease and increases coronary artery blood flow.MethodsTwo hundred ninety-three PMP women with UA (mean age 69.7 years), treated with standard anti-ischemic therapy, were enrolled within 24 h of symptom onset. In a double-blind fashion, subjects were randomized to receive intravenous followed by oral conjugated estrogen for 21 days, intravenous estrogen followed by oral conjugated estrogen plus medroxyprogesterone for 21 days or placebo. The primary end point was the number of ambulatory electrocardiographic ischemic events over the first 48 h. Clinical events were also determined over six months of follow-up.ResultsElectrocardiographic ischemia did not differ among the three randomized groups. The mean number of ischemic events per patient over 48 h was 0.74 for estrogen, 0.86 for estrogen plus progesterone and 0.74 for the placebo groups (p = 0.87). The percentage of patients with ischemic events and the mean duration of ischemia did not differ between hormone- and placebo-treated patients. In-hospital and six-month rates of adverse clinical events were also similar among the three randomized groups.ConclusionsAcute hormone therapy does not reduce ischemia in PMP women with UA when added to standard anti-ischemic therapy.