Menopause Therapy
Scientists at St. Luke's Hospital release new data on menopause therapy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 8th, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report 'The skin, carotid and intervertebral disc: making the connection.' According to recent research from Malta, "A fairly consistent finding in work on the menopause and hormone replacement therapy is the positive effect of estrogen on connective tissue and its turnover. The menopause has been shown repeatedly to have a negative effect on the connective tissue in the dermis of the skin."
"Such an effect is prevented and in some cases reversed with estrogen therapy. This is similar to what happens in bone matrix. Similarly, the media in the carotid has been shown to undergo the same change with the menopause and with estrogen...
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