Estrogen Therapy

In this Healio Video Exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, speaks with Donna Shoupe, MD, about the health benefits of menopausal hormone therapy for women.

A lack of menopause education for health care professionals has had a direct impact on midlife women seeking care, and a new initiative from The Menopause Society aims to bridge a wide gap in knowledge and training.

BOSTON — Menopause is a neurologic transition involving metabolic and immune systems of the brain, and timely estrogen therapy could reduce the risk for developing dementias and other neurogenerative diseases, according to a speaker.

Transgender girls see most of their body composition changes occur during puberty suppression, whereas transgender boys experience greater body composition changes during gender-confirming testosterone therapy, according to study data.

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.

PHILADELPHIA — Hormone therapy for women with premature menopause is underutilized due to fear of adverse effects; however, any risks observed with HT after natural menopause are not applicable to young women, according to a speaker.

A recent study showed that postmenopausal women who were prescribed estrogen therapy had a significantly lower risk for death after contracting COVID-19 compared with a control group. It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

Tamoxifen and steroidal aromatase inhibitor use among women with breast cancer was associated with a significantly lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a retrospective cohort study showed.

Data show that men who contract COVID-19 are more likely to be intubated or die compared with women. In light of these findings, researchers launched a trial investigating whether a transdermal estrogen patch can reduce symptom severity compared with regular care among patients with COVID-19. It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

Among healthy, postmenopausal women, hormone therapy with oral conjugated equine estrogens — compared with transdermal estradiol or no hormone therapy — may slow the adverse effects of heart fat accumulation on carotid intima-media thickness , according to an analysis of the KEEPS study published in Menopause.