Effect of low estrogen states in healthy women on dispersion of ventricular repolarization.
Our data show that although estrogen does not seem to affect the QT interval in healthy women, it significantly decreases the QT dispersion. This finding could provide an explanation to the gender differences in susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias, besides the difference in the incidence of coronary artery disease.
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Tufts University School of Medicine-New  England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. sabas@msx.upmc.edu
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D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000187:drug effects; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D004967:Estrogens / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008133:Long QT Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
D004967:Estrogens