Hormone Therapy News

Children with idiopathic pediatric growth hormone deficiency had an increase in annualized height velocity after 6 months of receiving a daily oral GH therapy, according to a speaker.

Risk for type 2 diabetes with use of menopausal hormone therapy varied by type of HT, according to a retrospective cohort study of women in South Korea published in Menopause.

Use of the hormone estetrol 15 mg once daily had estrogenic effects in the vagina while decreasing atrophy signs and may be a promising treatment option for menopausal symptoms other than vasomotor symptoms, according to researchers.

An increasing number of studies are reporting that testosterone therapy may not only normalize testosterone levels for men, but may also provide cardiometabolic benefits.

Providers are too cautious with testosterone therapy. The myth is that increasing testosterone level will cause prostate cancer. If you start with a myth, you have to disprove that myth with a trial that is probably too big to ever conduct and that nobody will ever fund. Although repeated studies have shown no risks with testosterone therapy, those small studies are never looked at.

A recent report from the Ecology Center’s Healthy Stuff Lab found a shift away from use of endocrine-disrupting bisphenol chemicals in retailer receipts to non-bisphenol alternatives from 2017 to 2022.

Being younger at menopause onset and initiating hormone therapy after more than 5 years were both linked to increased tau vulnerability among women, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Neurology.

Women using hormone therapy for menopause symptoms did not have a greater risk for lung cancer than their untreated peers, and may have had lower risk with higher HT dosage and duration, according to study data published in Menopause.

Women with growth hormone deficiency treated with GH therapy have lower insulin-like growth factor I levels at both baseline and follow-up and experience more adverse events than men, according to study data.

Testosterone replacement therapy combined with lifestyle modification may contribute to improved metabolic and glucose profiles for men with hypogonadism and prediabetes, according to a review article.