GPER-1 and Estrogen Receptor-β Ligands Modulate Aldosterone Synthesis Authors: Brasilina Caroccia, Teresa M. Seccia, Abril Gonzalez Campos, Francesca Gioco, Maniselvan Kuppusamy, Giulio Ceolotto, Eugenia Guerzoni, Francesca Simonato, Sara Mareso, Livia Lenzini, Ambrogio Fassina, and Gian Paolo Rossi Abstract Fertile women have lower blood pressure and cardiovascular risk than age-matched men, which suggests that […]
Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, Estrogen, hormones, hypertension
Hormone Therapy May Cut Risk of Repeat Joint Replacement Surgery in Women Those who took HR after hip/knee replacement saw risk of second procedure drop by about 50 percent when taken for at least one year. Reprinted from HealthDay News — Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after having had hip or knee replacement […]
arthritis, hormones, Muscluloskeletal, osteoarthritis, surgery
Hormone replacement therapy and mid-term implant survival following knee or hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study D Prieto-Alhambra, M K Javaid, A Judge, J Maskell, C Cooper, N K Arden, on behalf of the COAST Study GroupOxford NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; [email protected] ABSTRACT Objectives: Osteolysis and […]
hormones, Musculoskeletal, osteoarthritis, surgery
Systems analysis of sex differences reveals an immunosuppressive role for testosterone in the response to influenza vaccination Key Findings: Marked sex differences in immune response to infections and vaccination exist. The reason may be a cluster of genes involved in lipid metabolism that are modulated by testosterone and that correlate with the higher antibody-neutralizing response […]
hormones, Immunity, immunology
