[Hormone-producing function of the ovaries in young and middle-aged women with arterial hypertension and coronary heart disease].

The study demonstrates that arterial hypertension itself, judging by main anthropometric variables such as body weight index and waist to hip ratio, together with the estrogen-producing function of the ovaries, evaluated by measuring follicle-stimulating hormone levels, contributes substantially to the forming of abdominal obesity in normo- and hypertensive women. All the above confirms close correlation between hemodynamic and metabolic disturbances which eventually result in coronary heart disease in young and middle-aged women.