Systematic Reviews of Hormone Replacement Therapy

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

Created Sept 2007

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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:   May 2007
Title:   Testosterone for peri- and postmenopausal women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The value of adding adjuvant testosterone to hormone therapy for peri-and postmenopausal women's health is controversial. This systematic review examines the benefits and the risks of such therapy. The small number of studies appropriate for inclusion i...
Date:   Aug 2005
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 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:   Feb 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:   Hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women: endometrial hyperplasia and irregular bleeding
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The decline in circulating oestrogen around the time of the menopause often induces unacceptable symptoms that affect the health and well being of women. Hormone replacement therapy (both unopposed oestrogen and oestrogen and progestogen combinations) is an effective treatment for these symptoms.
Title:   Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues for endometriosis: bone mineral density
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Both hormone replacement therapy and danazol stop the loss of bone density that occurs when women take gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues for endometrosis Endometriosis is a painful condition caused where tissue from the lining of the uterus ...
Date:   Aug 2003
Title:   Hormone replacement therapy to maintain cognitive function in women with dementia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is no evidence that estrogen replacement therapy can maintain cognitive function for up to a year in women with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Estrogens have been shown to have potentially beneficial effects on the brain. After the menopause in wom...
Date:   May 2002
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 has no effect on body weight and cannot prevent weight gain at menopause.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...
Date:   May 1999
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