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This section
will take a look at the subject of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Other topics that contain information for women can be found further
down the page.
Hormone
Replacement Therapy
(HRT) provides women with the female hormones that decrease as
they age.
When
the hormone progestin is combined with estrogen, it is generally
called "HRT." Estrogen is a
female hormone that brings about changes in other organs in the
body.
Hormone-replacement
therapy is not advised in women over age 60 who
have no signs of heart disease or osteoporosis.
Hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) is a system of medical treatment
for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, based on the assumption
that it may prevent discomfort and health problems caused by diminished
circulating estrogen hormones.
Hormone
replacement therapy or HRT replaces the declining oestrogen
levels in the body after menopause. HRT normally contains artificial
forms of the sex hormones oestrogen
and progesterone which are only produced
in small amounts after menopause.
The
symptoms of menopause include hot flashes, mood swings, night
sweats, and vaginal irritation. Recent studies have questioned
the long term effects of hormone replacement therapy, including
increased incidence of breast cancer, coronary heart disease,
stroke, thromboembolic events, and cholecystitis.
The
treatment involves a series of drugs designed to artificially boost hormone levels. The main types of hormones
involved are estrogens, progesterone or progestins,
and sometimes testosterone.
Then
think about your own medical history and risk of heart disease,
osteoporosis, and breast cancer and your family history of these
illnesses.
Estrogen
is a female hormone that brings about changes in other organs
in the body. A regimen of estrogen in combination with progesterone
for HRT has until recently been considered to be a fairly safe bet, since progesterone protects the endometrium from estrogen stimulation that can increase the
risk of uterine cancer.
Women
with breast cancer or a history of blood clots should not take
hormone replacement therapy. Also avoid
hormone replacement therapy for
preventing memory loss, heart disease, heart attacks or strokes.
Concerns
about hormone replacement
therapy stem from the results of both the combined estrogen-progestin
and the estrogen-alone arms of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)
clinical trial.
Hormone
replacement therapy with estrogen alone ("unopposed
estrogen") is recommended only to
women who had previous hysterectomy.
Due
to the millions of women that take the hormone replacement therapy the
number of illnesses quickly add up.
After
menopause, women take hormone replacement therapy generally to
improve their health in some way. They may hope to alleviate the
symptoms experienced during menopause, to reduce bone loss that
can lead to osteoporosis and to protect themselves
from heart disease.
Which
synthetic hormones you’ve taken
and how long you’ve been on them are important factors in
your response to stopping HRT. A third factor is how severe your
symptoms were before you started hormone
replacement therapy.
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