Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Hormone Therapy and the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

   • Amos Pines

   Pages 1-10

3. Hormone Replacement for Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis

   • J. Zochling, P. N. Sambrook

   Pages 11-29

4. Sex Hormone Therapy for Dementia

   • Victor W. Henderson

   Pages 31-42

5. The Treatment of Estrogen Deficiency in Women at Risk for Breast Cancer and Survivors of the Disease

   • Richard Santen, JoAnn V. Pinkerton

   Pages 43-81

6. Phytoestrogens as Hormone Replacement Therapy for Postmenopausal Symptoms

   • Susan R. Davis

   Pages 83-107

7. Androgen Deficiency in Men Without Overt Pituitary-Gonadal Disease: The Role of Testosterone Therapy

   • Shalender Bhasin

   Pages 109-133

8. Back Matter

   Pages 135-136

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Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy addresses important issues in contemporary endocrinology. Its major emphasis is on the consequences of the menopause and on androgen deficiency in the absence of overt disease of the hypothalamus and/or pituitary in men. The use of hormone therapy for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal women has become an area of major debate, and the pros and cons are examined in detail. Secondary prevention also remains controversial and is addressed in this volume.
An issue of particular concern is the treatment of estrogen deficiency symptoms in women with the diagnosis of breast cancer. Whether older men with some androgen deficiency symptoms and equivocally low plasma testosterone concentrations should be treated with androgens is also a matter of great debate, as is the efficacy and safety of plant estrogens in the treatment of menopause-related complaints.
Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy will be of interest to students and non-specialists, as well as a wide range of medical practitioners including endocrinologists, gynecologists, rheumatologists and cardiologists.

• cardiovascular
• dementia
• endocrinology
• hormone
• hormone therapy
• hormones
• hypothalamus
• menopause
• prevention
• sex
• vascular disease
• diabetes

• Monash Medical Centre, Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

  Henry G. Burger

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