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Menopausal Hormone Therapy Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)

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Therapeutics Letter 14 discusses menopausal hormone therapy. Education, support and non-drug therapies are essential for all menopausal women. Short-term hormone therapy has a useful role in selected women with established symptoms or disease. Until randomized trials are completed, long-term therapy decisions have to be made in the face of uncertainty balancing the potential benefits and risks in individual patients.The final decision must be guided by the individual woman’s choice.

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Title
Menopausal Hormone Therapy
Alternate Title
Therapeutics Letter 14
Creator
Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued
1996-07
Description
Therapeutics Letter 14 discusses menopausal hormone therapy. Education, support and non-drug therapies are essential for all menopausal women. Short-term hormone therapy has a useful role in selected women with established symptoms or disease. Until randomized trials are completed, long-term therapy decisions have to be made in the face of uncertainty balancing the potential benefits and risks in individual patients.The final decision must be guided by the individual woman’s choice.
Subject
Female; Hormone Replacement Therapy; Menopause; Risk Assessment 
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
The UBC TI is funded by the BC Ministry of Health to provide evidence-based information about drug therapy. We neither formulate nor adjudicate provincial drug policies.
Date Available
2023-06-20
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0433593
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85003
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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