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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Hypertension: Relationship to the Renin-Angiotensin System

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Hypertension in Postmenopausal Women

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Senaca observed early in the first century A.D., “the illustrious founder of the guild and profession of medicine [Hippocrates] remarked that women never lost their hair or suffered from pain in the feet; and yet nowadays they run short of hair and are afflicted with gout … in rivalling male indulgences, they have also rivalled the ills to which men are heirs“.

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  1. Jean M. Cacciabaudo
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine 1, Hôpital Broussais, F-75674, Paris Cedex 14, France

    Michel Emile Safar M.D. (Professor of Therapeutics) (Professor of Therapeutics)

  2. Hypertension Research Center, Hôpital Broussais, F-75674, Paris Cedex 14, France

    Michel Emile Safar M.D. (Professor of Therapeutics) (Professor of Therapeutics)

  3. Medical School, University of Cologne, D-50931, Cologne, Germany

    Michael Stimpel M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine) (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

  4. Department of Clinical Research, Schwarz Pharma AG, D-40789, Monheim, Germany

    Michael Stimpel M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine) (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

  5. Centro die Fisiologia, Clinica e Ipertensione, Policlinico Via F. Sforza 35, I-20122, Milano, Italy

    Alberto Zanchetti M.D. (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Cacciabaudo, J.M., Sealey, J.E. (1994). Hormone Replacement Therapy and Hypertension: Relationship to the Renin-Angiotensin System. In: Safar, M.E., Stimpel, M., Zanchetti, A. (eds) Hypertension in Postmenopausal Women. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79077-5_6

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