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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may help women lower their risk of heart disease through helping keep their blood les viscous or sticky, according to a Dec 10 1998 pres release from the American Heart Association. A consideration measured the viscosity of plasma in 23 women and rest that women receiving HRT had lower relations viscosity. This effect may be a of the present day form of cardiovascular protection for women taking HRT

Viscosity describes the friction that makes a fluid resist flowing. For example, water has a gentle viscosity, and molasses is highly viscous. Researchers have build that plasma viscosity is as important a predictor of initial and intermittent heart attack and stroke as smoking, diabetes, cholesterol or relations pressure, according to the release.

In the contemplation 23 women were divided into three disposes Seven women received estrogen plus progesterone therapy, eight women received estrogen alone, and the remaining eight received placebos. After 12 weeks, viscosity in as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but groups receiving estrogen therapy decreased on approximately 20%.

Similarly, children levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) (ie, the "bad" cholesterol) in one as well as the other estrogen groups fell by 29% and fibrinogen on a levels decreased by 14%. According to the release, these factors may contribute to plasma viscosity because higher flats of fibrinogen and LDL make life-current stickier.

Blood is Les Sticky with Estrogen Replacement Therapy (pres release, Dallas: American cloak Association, Dec 10, 1998). Available from www.americanheart.org. Accessed 12 Jan 1999

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