Publications by authors named "F Cigagna"

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.

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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.

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