Systematic Reviews of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Follow the links below to find systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapies.

Reviewed January 2009

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Title:   Hormone therapy for endometriosis and surgical menopause
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Endometriosis is known to result in variable severity of symptoms. For some women bilateral removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy) with or without an hysterectomy may be required to manage symptoms. This brings women into premature menopause. It is thoug...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Long term hormone therapy for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hormone therapy (HT) is widely used for controlling menopausal symptoms. It has also been used for the management and prevention of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and dementia in older women. The present review set out to ...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Hormone replacement therapy to maintain cognitive function in women with dementia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   After the menopause, in women levels of estrogens decline. Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) or replacement therapy with both estrogens and progestagens (hormone replacement therapy or HRT) might theoretically help to maintain cognitive function in pos...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Hormone replacement therapy for cognitive function in postmenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Animal studies (performed both in the laboratory and on living animals) suggest that estrogen alone might protect the brain as women get older. After the menopause, levels of estrogens decline in women and estrogen therapy has been claimed to maintain o...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Evidence suggests that a high proportion of menopausal women will experience hot flushes and night sweats (vasomotor symptoms). Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is considered to be the most effective treatment for symptoms. However, studies have report...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Thyroid hormone replacement for subclinical hypothyroidism
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Subclinical hypothyroidism is a condition where some laboratory findings point at a thyroid gland not working properly. Patients with subclinical hypothyroidism may have vague, non-specific symptoms of actual hypothyroidism (for example dry skin, cold s...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women and risk of endometrial hyperplasia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hormone therapy may be used to manage troublesome menopausal symptoms, but is currently recommended to be given at the lowest effective dose and regularly reviewed by a woman and her doctor. In women with an intact uterus hormone therapy comprising estr...
Title:   Testosterone for peri and postmenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is good evidence that adding testosterone to hormone therapy (HT) has a beneficial effect on sexual function in postmenopausal women. However, the combined therapy is associated with a higher incidence of hair growth and acne and a reduction in hi...
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Oestrogen and progestogen hormone replacement therapy for peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women: weight and body fat distribution
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is used to reduce the symptoms of menopause and bone loss after menopause. Some women decline to take HRT because they believe it causes weight gain. The review of trials found no evidence that unopposed oestrogen and c...
Date:   Jul 2005
Title:   Hormone replacement therapy for preventing cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The authors analysed the data from the 10 clinical trials - two involved healthy women and eight involved women with heart disease. Altogether the trials included about 24,000 women who had been randomly assigned to take either hormones or placebos (dum...
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   Oral oestrogen and combined oestrogen/progestogen therapy versus placebo for hot flushes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hot flushes and night sweats are common symptoms around the menopause (the end of menstrual periods in a woman's life). During menopause there is a major reduction in sex hormones produced by the ovaries that cause these symptoms. The review of scientif...
Date:   Aug 2004
Title:   Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues for endometriosis: bone mineral density
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Endometriosis is a painful condition caused where tissue from the lining of the uterus (womb) is outside the uterus as well. It can be treated with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHas). Possible adverse effects of GnRHas include loss of bo...
Date:   Aug 2003
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