Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiac autonomic regulation may be positively affected by raloxifene
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 6th, 2006
According to investigators in Turkey, "There are suggestive data that raloxifene may have favorable effects on the arterial systems in postmenopausal women and thereby lowering the incidence of future adverse cardiovascular events. Reduction of heart rate variability appears to be a marker for identifying subjects with an increased risk for cardiac mortality, particularly in patients after myocardial infarction and in elderly people. Although there are conflicting data with regard to the effects of estrogen and progesterone on heart rate variability in postmenopausal women, the...
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