HealthDay reported, “Treatment with hormone replacement therapy (HRT), if tailored to an individual woman’s needs, appears to be safe during menopause, according to a report released at the World Congress on Menopause.”
And, because HRT treatment is “highly individual, a woman’s decision to start or continue treatment should be discussed with her doctor, the authors said.”
The updated recommendations, published in the journal Climacteric, also “urge women using HRT to review the decision annually with their doctor and to discontinue it every few years to see if symptoms return.”
Experts advise that women take HRT only for just as long as they need to and at the lowest dose possible to relieve symptoms.
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