Prevalence and Opinions of Hormone Therapy Prior to the Women's Health Initiative: A Multinational Survey on Four Continents

Heinemann, Klaas; Rübig, Alexander; Strothmann, Anja; Nahum, Gerard G.; Heinemann, L.

doi:10.1089/jwh.2007.0584

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“…The low rate of HRT use found in our study (2.1%) is comparable to those of other Asian countries [14,23]. Apart from cultural differences, the reasons were considered to be the lower prevalence and less severity of menopausal symptoms in the Asian population [23,31].…”

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confidence: 63%

“…After their publication, the use of HRT has decreased, in spite of new analyses of the WHI data. Recent follow-up and re-analysis of these data have found that in women aged 50-59 years, conjugated equine estrogens alone during the intervention phase were more favorable than placebo in all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, deaths due to cancer and with regard to the global index [12,13,14,15,16]. …”

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Chinese Women

Jin

Tao

Teng

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Gynecol Obstet Invest

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Objective: To explore the knowledge and prevalence of menopausal symptoms as well as the use and attitude toward hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in Chinese women. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between May 2011 and April 2012 in Shanghai, China. The structured questionnaire addressing sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge and prevalence of menopausal symptoms, and knowledge and attitude towards HRT and its use were investigated. Results: 3,619 women aged 40-65 years were included in the analysis. The majority of the women had knowledge of menopause. Symptoms were prevalent in 16.1% of premenopausal women and in 49.3% of peri-, post- and surgical-menopausal women. Back and joint pain, sleeplessness, fatigue and sweating/hot flushes were frequently reported. HRT awareness among women was 3.5% and was related to menopausal, working and marital status; 75 (2.1%) women had used or were using HRT, of which 57.3% used HRT with a doctor's prescription and 29.3% experienced side effects from the use of HRT. Conclusion: Most Chinese women had knowledge of menopause and thought menopausal symptoms should not be treated. The awareness of HRT was poor and influenced by menopausal, working and marital status. Chinese health care providers have to assume responsibility for educating women about menopause and HRT use.

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confidence: 63%

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Chinese Women

Jin

Tao

Teng

et al. 2014

Gynecol Obstet Invest

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“…Women have menopauseassociated symptoms worldwide (1). Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a well-established form of treatment for such symptoms.…”

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“…Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a well-established form of treatment for such symptoms. However, patients and practitioners have undergone a significant change of thought regarding the use of HRT after the publication of two studies focusing on the risks of HRT, the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial in 2002 and the observational Million Women Study in 2003 (1,2). Hormone replacement therapy also has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer (3).…”

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Influence of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) use by postmenopausal women on total hepatic perfusion and liver functions

Nasr

Nafeh

2009

Fertility and Sterility

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“…While we do not have information on hormone replacement therapy for our respondents, evidence suggests that few Indonesian women have ever used hormone therapy for their menopausal symptoms [41].…”

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A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups

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Menopause remains an evolutionary puzzle, as humans are unique among primates in having a long post-fertile lifespan. One model proposes that intergenerational conflict in patrilocal populations favours female reproductive cessation. This model predicts that women should experience menopause earlier in groups with an evolutionary history of patrilocality compared with matrilocal groups. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, we test this model at multiple timescales: deep historical time, comparing age at menopause in ancestrally patrilocal Chinese Indonesians with ancestrally matrilocal Austronesian Indonesians; more recent historical time, comparing age at menopause in ethnic groups with differing postmarital residence within Indonesia and finally, analysing age at menopause at an individuallevel, assuming a woman facultatively adjusts her age at menopause based on her postmarital residence. We find a significant effect only at the intermediate timescale where, contrary to predictions, ethnic groups with a history of multilocal postnuptial residence (where couples choose where to live) have the slowest progression to menopause, whereas matrilocal and patrilocal ethnic groups have similar progression rates. Multilocal residence may reduce intergenerational conflicts between women, thus influencing reproductive behaviour, but our results provide no support for the female-dispersal model of intergenerational conflict as an explanation of menopause.

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Prevalence and Opinions of Hormone Therapy Prior to the Women's Health Initiative: A Multinational Survey on Four Continents

Cited by 19 publications

References 28 publications

Knowledge and Attitude towards Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Chinese Women

Knowledge and Attitude towards Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Chinese Women

Influence of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) use by postmenopausal women on total hepatic perfusion and liver functions

A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups

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