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Volume 1, Issue 6, Page 6 (June 2006)


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Combo Lowers Blood Pressure, Limits Hot Flashes

FRAN LOWRY (Orlando Bureau)

WASHINGTON — The combination of drospirenone (a progestin with antialdosterone effects) and 17-β-estradiol as hormone therapy for hypertensive postmenopausal women not only reduces hot flashes, but lowers blood pressure as well, according to a poster presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

PII: S1558-0164(06)70180-8

doi:10.1016/S1558-0164(06)70180-8


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