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Study finds blood pressure unaffected by ERT. (Two Years of Therapy).

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| July 15, 2002 | Boschert, Sherry | COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF., -- Two years of estrogen replacement therapy in 222 postmenopausal women did not affect blood pressure readings in either normotensive patients or those with well-controlled blood pressure who were on antihypertensive medication, Dr. Peyman Saadat said.

A history of hypertension was thought to be a contraindication to estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) because of well-established associations between oral contraceptives and hypertension for many years, he noted at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society.

The current study suggests that women who are normotensive or have underlying but well-controlled hypertension should not be denied postmenopausal ERT, said Dr. Saadat of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

The results are supported by previous studies of ERT in normotensive postmenopausal women that found ...

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