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9780071602402

Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health: Breakthrough Findings to Help You Sail Through Menopause

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071602402

  • ISBN10:

    0071602402

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-09-19
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $16.95

Summary

What you should know about hormone replacement therapy--from a leading researcher and pioneer in the field .Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Healthgives you the.facts about controversial hormone replacement therapy--from the field�s go-to expert. Dr. JoAnn Manson is one of the leaders of the two most groundbreaking, attention-getting women�s health.studies, concluding that HRT can be a safe, and appropriate.option for younger women. Her book includes self-assessments to help you decide if HRT is right for you, as well as the low-down on "bioidentical" hormones and alternative treatments for relieving.menopausal symptoms.

Author Biography

JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., is a professor of medicine and the Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Women's Health at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Co-Director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology. Dr. Manson is the only person to have served as a lead investigator on two of the most influential studies of women's health ever conducted--the Women's Health Initiative and the Harvard Nurses' Health Study.

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Shari Bassuk, Sc.D., is an epidemiologist and science writer at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who frequently collaborates with Dr. Manson.

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Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Acknowledgentsp. xv
Explaining Perimenopause and Menopausep. 1
The Symptoms of Perimenopause and Menopause... and How to Treat Themp. 17
The Rise and Fall and (Cautious) Return of Hormone Therapyp. 47
Hormone Therapy: Is It Safe? Evaluating the Balance of Benefits and Risksp. 63
Hormone Therapy: A Plethora of Choices and the Truth About Bioidentical Hormonesp. 123
What's Your Health Profile? How to Calculate-and Reduce-Your Personal Risk of Five Health Outcomes Associated with Hormone Therapyp. 151
Putting It All Together: Should I Start Hormone Therapy? Should I Stop?p. 203
Referencesp. 235
Indexp. 251
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