Hormone therapy of premature ovarian failure: the case for "natural" estrogen.
Hormone therapy of premature ovarian failure: the case for "natural" estrogen.
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卵巢早衰的激素治疗:“天然”雌激素的案例。
DOI:
10.1161/hypertensionaha.108.128025
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
Oparil,Suzanne
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Oparil,Suzanne
Ovarian hormones play an important role in women’s health, providing the most reliable and convenient means of contraception and of relieving menopausal symptoms. 1, 2 Hormone therapy also has other benefits, eg, regulation of menstrual irregularities and relief of dysmenorrhea in menstruating women and prevention of vulvovaginal atrophy and osteoporosis/fractures in postmenopausal women. In addition, natural estrogens, principally 17-estradiol, and natural progesterone (but not synthetic progestins) have biological effects that protect the vasculature from oxidative and inflammatory injury and prevent cardiovascular disease. 3 These functions have been adduced by some to account for the 10-to 15-year delay in presentation of clinical cardiovascular disease and events in women compared with men. In contrast to the unquestioned benefits of endogenous ovarian hormones, hormone therapy of women with ovarian failure, whether naturally occurring or surgically induced, continues to be a topic of active debate in the scientific and popular literature. Although observational studies have shown substantial (50% reduction in coronary heart disease) benefit of menopausal hormone therapy (also referred to as “menopausal hormone replacement therapy” or “hormone replacement therapy”) in women who choose to take them (usually beginning treatment in the perimenopausal or early postmenopausal period), randomized, controlled trials have not confirmed a cardioprotective effect and have even shown evidence of harm. Accordingly, current guidelines do not recommend use of menopausal hormone therapy for the prevention or treatment of cardiovascular disease in women. Important limitations of the available randomized, controlled trials are that they typically enrolled women who were 60 years of age and, thus, were 10 years postmenopause and that they typically used nonphysiological hormone preparations, eg, conjugated equine estrogen and the synthetic progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate. Importantly, these trials do not answer questions about the effects of menopausal hormone therapy in young women, ie, those with premature ovarian failure. Although specific guidelines for hormone management of patients under age 40 years with ovarian failure are not available in the United States, the standard of practice is that conventional menopausal hormone therapies or oral contraceptives, sometimes with testosterone added, are administered until the usual age of menopause (51 years).In the current issue of Hypertension, Langrish et al4 compared the cardiovascular effects of physiological (transdermal estradiol and vaginal progesterone) with standard synthetic (oral ethinylestradiol and norethisterone) menopausal hormone therapy in a small group of young women (19 to 39 years of age) with premature ovarian failure of diverse etiologies. Their major findings were highly significant: 7.3/7.4 mmHg reductions in mean 24-hour blood pressure by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring accompanied by reduced plasma angiotensin II and serum creatinine levels with the estradiol/progesterone regimen at 12 months of treatment. These findings are consistent with previous observations that both endogenous estradiol and estradiol therapy tend to lower blood pressure. 3 Observational studies of blood pressure through the menstrual cycle have demonstrated that blood pressure is lower when estradiol levels peak during the luteal phase than when they are at their nadir during the follicular phase. The rise in blood pressure seen later in life in women has been related to menopause, per se, in addition to aging, and has been attributed to …
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
A. Mueck;H. Seeger
通讯作者:
H. Seeger
DOI:
10.1016/j.ajog.2003.09.045
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology.
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作者:
Brownley,KimberlyA;Hinderliter,AlanL;West,SheilaG;Grewen,KarenM;Steege,JohnF;Girdler,SusanS;Light,KathleenC
通讯作者:
Light,KathleenC
DOI:
10.1016/b978-0-323-03961-1.50073-8
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
JAMA
影响因子:
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作者:
T. Rosenthal;S. Oparil
通讯作者:
S. Oparil