妇女应用雌激素预防卒中试验(WEST)的结果表明,用雌二醇治疗不能降低已发生卒中或出现短暂性局部缺血的绝经后妇女卒中死亡率和复发率。美国耶鲁大学医学院的资深神经病学家Lawrence Brass认为,尽管应用雌激素进行卒中二级预防(正如目前我们进行的试验那样)已告失败,但就有关对卒中的预防而论,这并不是雌激素治疗的结束。 The results of women using the estrogen prevention stroke trial (WEST) showed that treatment with estradiol failed to reduce stroke mortality and relapse rates in postmenopausal women who had had a stroke or transient ischemic attack. Lawrence Brass, a senior neurologist at the Yale School of Medicine in the United States, believes that although estrogen has failed secondary prevention of stroke (as we have done so far), it is not true that for the prevention of stroke, End of hormone therapy.