Why the study?
Does a 6-month course of hormone replacement therapy improve heart rate variability in healthy postmenopausal women?
Population
46 healthy postmenopausal women with normal baseline electrocardiogram and negative exercise testing
Comparison
6-month course of hormone replacement therapy vs Baseline (before hormone replacement therapy)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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May support autonomic benefits of HRT; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Does a 6-month course of hormone replacement therapy improve heart rate variability in healthy postmenopausal women?
A 6-month course of hormone replacement therapy significantly improves cardiac autonomic function parameters as measured by heart rate variability in healthy postmenopausal women.
Yı́ldı́rı́r et al. (2001) studied this question.
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