Gender Differences in Cardiac Hypertrophy

    Jian Wu, Fangjie Dai, Chang Ming Li, Yunzeng Zou
    Studysummary This review discusses the role of sex hormones in cardiac hypertrophy and notes that estrogen provides protection against hypertrophy in pre-menopausal women, which is reduced after menopause but partially restored with estrogen therapy.
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