Hormone Therapy News

Postmenopausal women who stopped or never used hormone therapy over a 5-year period experienced a loss in bone density, whereas bone density was maintained for those who continued treatment, researchers reported in Menopause.

Testosterone therapy increases hemoglobin levels for older men with anemia and is linked to a lower likelihood for developing anemia for men without the condition, according to study data.

Oral contraceptives may protect against rheumatoid arthritis, while menopausal hormone therapy could increase risk for late-onset RA, according to data published in Rheumatology.

Twelve months of testosterone replacement therapy did not improve metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in a group of older men with hypogonadism, according to a secondary analysis of the T Trials.

DALLAS — In this Healio video exclusive, Michael S. Irwig, MD, discusses how gender-confirming hormone therapy may affect obesity and cardiometabolic health.

Implementing sex-specific troponin thresholds for diagnosing acute MI did not significantly affect outcomes for transgender patients, researchers reported.

During the past two decades, testosterone levels in American men have rapidly declined.

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In the first years of use, women prescribed conjugated estrogens/bazedoxifene vs. estrogen/progestin for menopausal symptoms may have higher rates of endometrial cancer and endometrial hyperplasia but lower breast cancer rates.

PHILADELPHIA — At 10 years of follow-up, women who had been assigned menopausal hormone therapy in the KEEPS study had cognitive function scores similar to those of women assigned placebo, according to a speaker.