ea0022p462 | Female reproduction | ECE2010
Lambrinoudaki Irene
, Karaflou Maria
, Kaparos George
, Grigoriou Odysseas
, Alexandrou Andreas
, Panoulis Constantinos
, Logothetis Emanuel
, Creatsa Maria
, Christodoulakos George
, Kouskouni Evangelia
Background/aim: The role of neutrophils and platelets in atherothrombotic disease is well established. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of hormone therapy and tibolone on the soluble markers of neutrophil and platelet activation, ADAM-8 and CD40L respectively, in healthy postmenopausal women.Subjects and methods: One hundred and six healthy postmenopausal women were randomly allocated to: estradiol plus drospirenone (E2/DSP),...