Hormone replacement therapy and blood pressure in hypertensive women.

There remains anxiety about the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women with hypertension. We therefore conducted a prospective open study of sequential changes in BP in 75 women referred to our hypertension clinic who required HRT for amelioration of menopausal symptoms. There were no significant differences in mean systolic or diastolic BPs following the introduction of HRT over a median follow-up time of 14 months …