�A major international sketch of the effects of HRT use of goods and services on quality of liveliness has shown that HRT use privy significantly meliorate well-being in women with menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats. The results of the WISDOM study will be published on BMJ.com on Friday 22 August 2008 (preeminence embargo details above). This study looked at health-related quality of life in 5692 intelligent women of age 50 - 69 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
The International Menopause Society notes that the study reported that nearly 3 out of 4 women, wHO complained of night sweat suit and hot flushes, establish that these symptoms had vanished subsequently a year of HRT use. Even in women who were well past times menopause and did not suffer hot flushes, on that point was a noted improvement in slumber, sexuality and joint painful sensation as a result of HRT use.
Speaking for the International Menopause Society, Dr Roger Lobo (Columbia University, New York) said
"This account from WISDOM is reassuring that in that respect are real benefits for some women electing to use HRT. While it has been well established that quality of life measures are improved in younger symptomatic women, this paper adds some information that even older women may benefit. While some of this information was reported from the WHI, which used the same hormonal regime, more sensitive instruments were used in WISDOM which was able-bodied to show improvements in other measures such as sexual subprogram. While this is important information and is reassuring regarding the benefits of HRT, these findings in isolation ar not an indication to initiate hormones in symptomless older women for the first time."
Dr David Sturdee (Solihull, UK), President of the International Menopause Society, said:
"This is a significant study, which supports our views on HRT. It shows that HRT tin offer real benefits to most women experiencing menopausal symptoms. Our advice remains the same: each woman is an individual, and she needs to discuss what's correct for her with her doctor, in the faint of her medical history. This survey reinforces the benefits of appropriate use."
The International Menopause Society (IMS) is the major outside body working with menopause-related medicine. The IMS's view is that HRT use can benefit women experiencing symptoms associated with the menopause, for example hot flushes, night sweats, aching joints and muscles, insomnia, and vaginal dryness. Evidence shows that HRT use is by and large safe for healthy women going through the climacteric. Health risks of HRT use ascend slightly afterwards the age of round 59. However, each woman needs to discuss her own medical circumstances with her doctor of the Church before decision making on HRT use.
The above is a summary (and of essential, it is simplified), only the IMS's full direction can be seen at: http://www.imsociety.org.
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