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Article: Effects of tibolone and estradiol on triglyceride levels compared.
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- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- August 22, 2004
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2004 AUG 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Turkey compared changes in triglyceride and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels after either tibolone or transdermal estrogen treatment in a group of postmenopausal women with high triglyceride levels and a group with normal levels.
"This prospective randomized study enrolled 140 postmenopausal women who had all been hysterectomized for almost a year or more. All subjects completed the 3-month follow-up. The 140 patients were divided into two groups: 70 were given transdermal 17beta-estradiol 0.05 mg/day, and 70 were given tibolone 2.5 mg/day," wrote R. Dansuk and colleagues.
"We ...