Background And Aims: Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in over 60-year-old women. The mean age of onset is about 10 years later in women compared to men, a difference which can be explained by the end of physiological estrogen production in menopause.
Methods: The authors treated a group of 68 menopausal patients with HRT for a period of 5 years.
Results: A series of positive effects emerged from the study which were potentially capable of preventing ischemic cardiopathy.
Conclusions: The authors reached the conclusion that--owing to its beneficial effects on lipid and glucose metabolism, as well as on coagulation factors and arterial pressure--HRT is able to prevent cardiovascular disease, reducing the risk of infarction by between 20 and 50%.
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Department of Medicine and Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Background And Hypothesis: Daprodustat, an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor, is approved for treatment of anemia in dialysis patients with CKD in some parts of the world. This subgroup analysis examined the efficacy and safety of daprodustat versus darbepoetin alfa in patients with anemia of CKD undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD).
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Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Fujian Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
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Pharmacy Department, Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
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Department of Pharmacy Practice, SRM College of Pharmacy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu, 603203, India.
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