Why I would encourage my wife to take HRT if she had type 2 diabetes
✍ Scribed by Gill, Geoff
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1357-8170
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Post-menopausal type 2 diabetic patients are at enormous risk of increased mortality and morbidity from coronary artery disease (CAD). Attempts to modify contributory risk factors are likely to be only partially successful, and any other bene®cial strategy should be vigorously adopted. Such a potential strategy is hormone (oestrogen) replacement therapy (HRT). Though a prospective randomised controlled trial of HRT for CAD primary prevention in type 2 diabetic females is lacking, there is considerable supportive evidence for its use, particularly of modern preparations. HRT should be seriously considered as a preventive strategy in this very high risk group of patients.