Climacteric Medicine - Where Do We Go?
Subtitle: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop of the International
Contributors: Naftolin, Frederick
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780203024966
Subjects: Congresses; Menopause
Description: Based on the 4th IMS Workshop, this book addresses the advances in clinical practice for the climacteric. The major focus is on a re-evaluation of existing HRT agents and the development of a future consensus for climacteric Medicine.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Menopause: lack of Darwinian adaptation drives its physiology; 2 A holistic approach to mature women's health and aging; 3 Natural history of menopause studies and related efforts at the National Institute on Aging, NIH; 4 Major findings of the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project; 5 The Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) study; 6 Adequately assessed quality of life; 7 Quality of life: the Asian perspective; 8 Alternatives to hormone therapy in menopausal women.; title: 9 Women's perspectives of hormone replacement therapy in Europe: country-specific aspects10 Recent clinical data and the role of menopausal hormone therapy today; 11 Impact on current clinical practice in Spain; 12 A clinician's response to the WHI; 13 Pharmacology during the menopausal transition; 14 Some background considerations relevant to the evaluation of the effects of hormone therapy; 15 Menopausal medicine and its potential drug development opportunities; 16 Clin.