VIDEO: Pearls for prescribing menopausal HT for women with chronic medical conditions

PHILADELPHIA — In this video exclusive, Stephanie Faubion, MD, MBA, FACP, NCMP, IF, provides pearls for use of menopausal hormone therapy by women with chronic conditions.

Faubion is the director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Women’s Health in Jacksonville, Florida, and the medical director of The Menopause Society.

“Most women in the U.S. have at least one chronic medical condition, and many women over the age of 50 [years] have more than that,” Faubion said. “So, it’s important to consider that when you’re prescribing hormone therapy, most of the time you’re not going to have a woman in your office who has absolutely no medical comorbidities.”

Faubion discusses contraindications to HT, when to initiate HT, HT options and assessment of cardiovascular risk.