Interleukin-1 in women with essential arterial hypertension in perimenopause during hormone replacement therapy

Development of essential hypertension in climacteric women is due to many causes and hypoestrogenic state being one of them. The article considers the role of estrogens in the cardiovascular system and the effect of cytokines on the progression of hypertension. The authors present data on changes in the level of interleukin-1α in this category of female patients while taking hormone replacement therapy and without it.