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Definition: hormone therapy from Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment

Therapeutic method in which the patient is administered extra hormones (e.g. in older women to replace those lost during the menopause).

Hormone Replacement Therapy

From Encyclopedia of Epidemiology
During the menopausal transition, there is a natural diminution of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), or hormone therapy (HT), is a medical treatment for symptoms related to the menopause and the menopausal transition. Clinically, HT has also been administered to protect against disorders such as osteoporosis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, recent studies have cast doubt on the protective effect of HT and have identified risks involved with its use. Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation due to the loss of ovarian follicular function. The perimenopause refers to the time period immediately preceding menopause when fertility wanes and menstrual cycle irregularity increases. This period continues until 12 months after cessation of menses, at which time the woman is considered menopausal. The mean duration of the perimenopause is 4 years, while signs consistent with the perimenopause may precede the final…
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From Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
With an unprecedented number of women living beyond midlife in western countries, the impact of menopause is an important public health issue. Middle-aged women are one of the largest single age groups in these populations, and every middle-aged woman must inevitably experience menopause. Since the…
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Full text Article Hormone Replacement Therapy

From Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Menopause is the cessation of menstrual periods. Women usually experience menopause at the age of 42–58, with the average age being 50-51 years. Menopause may occur slightly earlier in women who smoke or have a family history of early menopause. Otherwise, the age of menopause is unrelated to the…
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From Library of Health and Living: The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
Estrogens are a class of steroid hormones that function as female sex hormones. Estrogens are formed by the follicles of ovaries. They serve many functions: They increase protein synthesis in targeted tissues; they are responsible for secondary female characteristics (such as the development of…
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From The Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the use of synthetic or natural female hormones to make up for the decline or lack of natural hormones produced in a woman's body. HRT is sometimes referred to as estrogen replacement therapy, because the first medications that were used in the 1960s for female…
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From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
DSD fertility Hormone replacement therapy HRT intersex menopause transexuality transgenderism Hormone Replacement Therapy indicates a hormonal therapy in which the hormones are assumed to supplement a lack of hormone production, through either synthetic or naturally occurring hormones (plant or…
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Estrus refers to the regularly recurring periods of maximal sexual receptivity in female mammals. The word is derived from the Greek oistros , “the gadfly,” an insect whose sting instigates a frenzy in cattle. In gynecology, estrus refers to the cycle of changes in the female genital tract induced…
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Full text Article Hormone Replacement Therapy

From Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)—now more commonly called menopausal hormone therapy (MRT)—is the use of synthetic or natural female hormones to compensate for the decline in the body's hormone production that occurs when a woman enters menopause. HRT is used relieve physical symptoms associated…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Use of oestrogen and progesterone to help limit the unpleasant effects of the menopause . The treatment was first used in the 1970s. During the menopause, the ovaries cease to secrete natural oestrogen. This results in a number of symptoms, including hot flushes, anxiety, and a change in the pattern…
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From Collins Dictionary of Medicine
HRT , the long-term prescription of synthetic or natural hormones to people whose endocrine glands have had to be removed or, for other reasons, no longer secrete adequate quantities of the natural hormones. The term is often applied to the treatment of postmenopausal women with oral, trans-dermal…
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From The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine
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