Effects of hormone replacement therapy on QT interval

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作者
Larsen, JA [1 ]
Tung, RH [1 ]
Sadananda, R [1 ]
Goldberger, JJ [1 ]
Horvath, G [1 ]
Parker, MA [1 ]
Kadish, AH [1 ]
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[1] Northwestern Univ, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Div Cardiol, Chicago, IL USA
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10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00523-2
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 [临床医学]; 100201 [内科学];
摘要
We evaluated the electrocardiograms of 208 postmenopausal women (ages 40 to greater than or equal to 70 years) without heart disease, medications that could alter the QT interval, use of vaginal estrogens, unknown hormone replacement therapy, or electrocardiographic abnormalities both with (n = 76) and without (n = 132) hormone replacement therapy, and found no significant effects of hormone replacement therapy status on heart rate, QT interval, or the corrected QT interval. Thus, estrogen and/or progesterone effect does not explain the gender differences in myocardial repolarization.
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