Given this rapidly changing field, it is likely that the medical management of menopause will continue to evolve in the coming years.doi:10.1089/rej.1.1998.1.339MARTINKATHRYN A.Journal of Anti-Aging MedicineKATHRYN A.MARTIN. (1998) Estrogen Therapy For Menopause. Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine 1...
Oral administration of estrogen requires higher doses than transdermal therapy. This difference occurs mainly because estrogen undergoes first-pass metabolism in the liver (known as the first-pass effect) that induces a variety of metabolic effects. Metabolism of orally administered estrogen also depends...
Postmenopauseestrogen therapypsychical symptomssomatic symptomsThe effect of oral estrogen replacement therapy upon somatic and psychical disturbances and sexuality was studied in a doubleblind investigation in 48 postmenopausal women using hormone preparations with two different levels of micronized estradiol-17...
Menopause seems to catch women unprepared no matter when it begins, but it can be especially jarring if it comes prematurely. Most women seem to think of menopause as being preordained to come around the age of fifty, but it’s not unusual for it to start in the mid-thirties, especially ...
When it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is delivered--taking a pill versus wearing a patch on one's skin--doesn't affect risk or benefit, researchers at UCLA and elsewhere have found. Study Assesses Dose and Delivery Method for Menopause HRT ...
Patients who were older than 60 when they started estrogen therapy did not have lower mortality risk and had more side effects, regardless of whether they had their ovaries removed.
(HealthDay)—Estrogen therapy after menopause may help reduce the memory problems associated with stress in some older women, a small new study suggests.
Estrogen therapy/hormone replacement therapy Estrogen withdrawal around menopause is associated with significantbone lossand the use of estrogen replacement therapy is FDA-approved for the prevention ofosteoporosis, though non-estrogen treatments are recommended to be considered if its use is solely for fr...
Estrogen loss associated with menopause may contribute to the development of Alzheimer disease.To evaluate the effects of different estrogen preparations, varying dosages of estrogen, and duration of estrogen replacement therapy on the risk of Alzheimer disease in postmenopausal women.A case-control ...
The Columbia University researchers said, “Although the most recent publications from the follow-up studies of the Women’s Health Initiative do not recommend menopause hormonal therapy as a prevention strategy, these conclusions may not be fully valid for midlife women, on the basis of the ex...