Association of cardiovascular risk factors with intima-media thickness of the carotid arteries in early postmenopausal women.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and coronary heart diseases (CHD) risk factors in a large population of peri- and postmenopausal women.

Design: Participants in this study were 906 healthy peri- and postmenopausal women from southwestern France, 45 to 65 years old with no history of cardiovascular disease and no utilization of estrogen/hormone therapy. Women were classified either as perimenopausal (n = 240) or post-menopausal (n = 666) according both to the regularity of menses and to serum follicle-stimulating hormone and estradiol values.

Effect of hormone replacement therapy on age-related increase in carotid artery intima-media thickness in postmenopausal women.

The aim of this study was to determine the changes in carotid artery intima-media thickness as measured by B-mode ultrasound in postmenopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or not. One hundred and fifty-nine healthy postmenopausal women aged 45-65 years were recruited from our menopause clinic. All the selected women were free of cardio-vascular diseases and had no cardio-vascular risk factors.

Coronary heart disease risk factors and menopause: a study in 1684 French women.

This study aimed to assess the relationship between menopause and various risk factors for coronary heart diseases (CHD) in a large sample of French women aged 45 65 years. One thousand six hundred and eighty-four consecutive healthy women who received a systematic check-up in our Menopause Unit were included in this study. All the women answered a computer-assisted questionnaire which comprised 156 items, 72 questions being exclusively related to the identification of familial and personal cardio-vascular risk factors.