Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of a long term(1 year) hormone replacement therapy(HRT) on QT interval, QT dispersion(QTd) frequencies of arrhythmia and heart rate variability(HRV) parameters. Methods: Fortysix healthy postmenopausal women(mean age; 55.34±4.21) as a hormone replacement therapy group and 25 healthy premenopausal women(mean age; 35.36±6.06) as a control group were prospectively enrolled to the study. Hormone replacement therapy group was divided into two groups; estrogen replacement therapy(ERT) group(n=23) and progestin-estrogen replacement therapy(PERT) group(n=23). Standard 12 lead electrocardiograms and 24-h ambulatory Holter recording were obtained to evaluate the effects of one year of ERT and PERT on QT intervals, QTd, frequencies of arrhytmias and HRV parameters. Results: Long term use of ERT increases QT interval, QTd, in the frequencies of arrhytmia and HRV indexes of parasympathetic activity; however, the increase in frequencies of arrhythmia was not statistically significant(p>0.05). Long term use of PERT did not effected QT interval, QTd, frequencies of ventricular arrhythmia and HRV parameters(p >0.05).Frequency of supraventricular tachycardia increased in post-treatment PERT group was compared with pre-treatment PERT group. Conclusion: These findings supported the hypothesis that estrogen may directly modulate ventricular repolarization. But progestin do not effect the ventricular repolarization. However, these findings must be supported with a large-scale study.
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