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HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY |
The Hormone Replacement Therepy-HRT means the
use of synthetic or natural female hormones administered for
balancing the deficiency of natural hormones that are naturally
produced in the women’s bodies. This therepy is often referred to as
the Estrogen Replacement Therepy – ERT, since the very first
medications that were used sometimes during the year 1960s for
female hormones replacement were estrogen compounds.
Types of Hormone Replacement Therapy: The most widely prescribed
type of Hormone Replacement Therepy-HRT is considered as proprietary
combinations of conjugated equine estrogens –CEE and progestins. The
other type is Bioidentical kind of human estrogen and progesterone.
However, the route of its administration is rather significant as
compared to the type of hormone replacement therapy or estrogen
replacement therepy-ERT. For instance, a specific study was
conducted for comparing effects of oral vs. trans-dermal estrogen or
skin patch – mostly estradiol-17 beta – the bioidentical human
estrogen, and noticed that the oral route was accompanied by thrice
the risk of venous clotting disease but the trans-dermal estrogen
exhibited no additional risk at all.
Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy: The key elements that may
exaggerate risk may include: smoking addiction, body overweight,
high-fat diet habits, alcoholism, hereditary heart ailments,
hypertension / high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol levels
and diabetes. But less significant risk elements could be such as:
being African American, living the deskbound lifestyle, experiencing
early menopausal phase before 45 years of age and have excessive
social or commercial stress.
Certain short-termed risks are also linked with HRT like several
physical side effects, such as: fluid retention, bloating, weight
gain, sore breasts, leg cramps, vaginal discharge, migraine
headaches, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, acne, depression, shortness
of breath and giddiness.
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