Saturday, May 20, 2017

North American Menopause Society (NAMS) video series about important midlife health topics: hormone therapy for women 65+

HRT if used properly and under expert care have the potential to offer multisystem benefits at relatively low cost. But, sadly the acceptance of HRT is quite low in society because of risk of breast cancer and is frequently discontinued because of breakthrough bleeding.

The acceptance further dropped after the results of Women's Health Initiative study (WHI) in 2002 found that it actually increased a woman's risk of heart disease, stroke, dementia and breast cancer.
Within months a 50% drop was noticed in women using HRT.

But a final comprehensive report published in JAMA and took a deeper look at the WHI study and the results were broken down according to age and number of years elapsed since menopause.
The key findings were HRT is appropriate for younger women who are in early menopause because the Quality of life benefit derived will be much more as compared to the adverse effects. In older women who are 60+ the risks are entirely different and outweigh the harm.

The dilemma has since continued about initializing or extending HRT in women who are 60+ years. Some women still want to continue using hormones because of the ‘feel good factor’ or because the menopausal symptoms of hot flashes and urogenital syndrome of menopause still continue bothering her.  

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) thinks that women should be evaluated according to circumstances and risk/benefit ratio. They should use the lowest possible dose under strict monitoring.

This latest video, Extended Hormone Therapy Use, Dr. Shapiro interviews Dr. Cynthia Stuenkel, Past President of NAMS, an internist, endocrinologist, and reproductive endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Stuenkel discusses the safety and risk for hormone therapy use in women 65 years of age and older.  

                 Dr Stuenkel discusses risk and benefits of hormone therapy for women 65+


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