Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rylance, P B
• Brincat, M
• Lafferty, K
• De Trafford, J C
• Brincat, S
• Parsons, V
• Studd, J W

Titel

Natural progesterone and antihypertensive action

Ist Teil von

• BMJ, 1985-01, Vol.290 (6461), p.13-14

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

1985

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In a placebo controlled, double blind crossover study natural progesterone was given by mouth, in increasing doses, to six men and four postmenopausal women with mild to moderate hypertension who were not receiving any other antihypertensive drugs. When compared with values recorded before treatment and during administration of placebo progesterone caused a significant reduction in blood pressure, suggesting that progesterone has an antihypertensive action rather than a hypertensive one as has been previously thought. This possible protective effect of progesterone should be investigated further.