Category Archives: Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormone Replacement Therapy - Avoiding Treatment Linked to Early Death New report shows that hormone replacement therapy can be more beneficial than thought a decade ago. Women entering menopause should re-evaluate the positive ... By: AlvaradoHospital … Continue reading →

AVENTURA, Fla - Joshua Wapner may look like the picture of health, but his past tells a different story. "At 30, my father had his first heart attack. At 35, he had a triple bypass, second heart attack, and triple-bypass surgery," said Wapner, 36. "He died at age 45, actually on my 17th birthday." Wapner went to Soffer Health with one of the worst family histories that Dr. Ari Soffer said he had ever seen. "On my father's side, there's eight relatives over the past 40 years who all died of heart attacks at young ages, no one going above the age of 53," he said. Wapner underwent a stress test and blood work, which showed he had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and low testosterone. The combination made him a good candidate for hormone replacement therapy, which studies say can be beneficial for the right patients. "If you look at what testosterone does, it's not only for libido. It's also for basic metabolic processes," said Dr. Adam Splaver with Memorial Healthcare. "So if you optimize their metabolism, you can optimize their cardiac function." Studies on patients with advanced congestive heart failure as well as those with chronic stable angina … Continue reading →

Dr. Walton G. Smith explains Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Dr. Walton G. Smith explains Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy. By: Fort Sanders Women's Specialists … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For a woman contemplating taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), the increase in breast cancer risk she faces may depend on her individual body type, race and ethnicity, according to new U.S. research. In a large new study of women on HRT, slim and normal-weight women with dense breast tissue saw a nearly 50 percent increase in breast cancer risk, while women who were black or overweight with less-dense breast tissue showed no risk increase at all. "With many medications, the effects aren't the same for everybody, either for prevention or treatment," Dr. Dezheng Huo of the University of Chicago, one of the new study's authors, told Reuters Health. For decades, menopausal women routinely took estrogen alone or estrogen with progestin to cope with hot flashes and night sweats. Conventional medical wisdom held that HRT, because it kept estrogen levels high, would also protect the heart and maintain bone strength. But the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a large, long-term clinical trial, found that HRT did not reduce women's heart attack risk and actually raised the risk of stroke. Moreover, that study showed a 24 percent increased risk of invasive breast cancer in women who took estrogen … Continue reading →

Days before her planned gender reassignment surgery, a transgender model wowed audiences on the catwalk at London's Fashion Week, just two years after beginning hormone replacement therapy. Nicole Gibson, 32, took part in the Catwalk For Change campaign for Models of Diversity, a fashion showcase that sought to challenge the lack of diversity within the fashion industry. "The fashion show was amazing," said Gibson. "They say you have not really made it as a model until you walk along the catwalk in a sheer dress with your nipples showing -- and here I was doing it in my first show. Luckily, thanks to the hormones, I have quite a nice pair now. I didnt have time to get nervous, I was just so excited." Up until her 20s, Gibson identified as a gay man. She then started to wear women's clothing for a number of years before deciding to begin hormone replacement therapy. "To me it is just something that I have to do," stated Gibson. "It is like having two horns on my head that I have to get rid of to become the person that I have always felt I was inside.' Prior to embarking on her modeling … Continue reading →

Public release date: 18-Sep-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Sally Stewart sally.stewart@cshs.org 310-248-6566 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center LOS ANGELES (Embargoed Until 9 a.m. EDT/6 a.m. PDT on Sept. 18, 2013) Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug Administration-approved bioidentical forms of estrogen or getting their hormones via a transdermal patch. A new observational study shows bioidentical hormones in transdermal patches may be associated with a lower risk of heart attack and FDA-approved products -- not compounded hormones -- may be associated with a slightly lower risk of stroke compared to synthetic hormones in pill form. "If confirmed by future randomized trials, these findings may be significant because for the past decade, many women who experienced severe menopause symptoms opted not to use hormone therapy because of the reported increased risk of stroke and heart attacks," said Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, director of the Women's Hormone and Menopause Program at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Shufelt said the study's findings are not conclusive and are based on observational follow-up, not a randomized clinical trial. Additionally, … Continue reading →

Newswise LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED until 9 a.m. EDT/6 a.m. PDT on Sept. 18, 2013) Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug Administration-approved bioidentical forms of estrogen or getting their hormones via a transdermal patch. A new observational study shows bioidentical hormones in transdermal patches may be associated with a lower risk of heart attack and FDA-approved products -- not compounded hormones -- may be associated with a slightly lower risk of stroke compared to synthetic hormones in pill form. If confirmed by future randomized trials, these findings may be significant because for the past decade, many women who experienced severe menopause symptoms opted not to use hormone therapy because of the reported increased risk of stroke and heart attacks, said Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, director of the Womens Hormone and Menopause Program at the Barbra Streisand Womens Heart Center in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Shufelt said the studys findings are not conclusive and are based on observational follow-up, not a randomized clinical trial. Additionally, all types of hormone therapy had similar rates of total cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality, the study … Continue reading →

Sep. 18, 2013 Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug Administration-approved bioidentical forms of estrogen or getting their hormones via a transdermal patch. A new observational study shows bioidentical hormones in transdermal patches may be associated with a lower risk of heart attack and FDA-approved products -- not compounded hormones -- may be associated with a slightly lower risk of stroke compared to synthetic hormones in pill form. "If confirmed by future randomized trials, these findings may be significant because for the past decade, many women who experienced severe menopause symptoms opted not to use hormone therapy because of the reported increased risk of stroke and heart attacks," said Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, director of the Women's Hormone and Menopause Program at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Shufelt said the study's findings are not conclusive and are based on observational follow-up, not a randomized clinical trial. Additionally, all types of hormone therapy had similar rates of total cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality, the study showed. The similarities in results across formulations were greater than the … Continue reading →

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Insight: Transgender - Riley on growing up as a girl As a young child, Riley wore dresses and put tea towels on her head to pretend she had long hair. Now 16 years old, Riley has'come out' as a girl and uses h... By: InsightSBS … Continue reading →