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According to the lead author of the study, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, who is an endocrinologist and co-director of the women's health program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, weight gain outside of an ideal weight range at any age significantly increases chances of an early death...
...know little about perimenopause, and their doctors aren't much help. A Gallup poll of women ages 45 to 60 conducted last year found that only 44% were satisfied with the information they received from their doctors about menopause. Until recently, doctors "simply weren't aware of perimenopause," admits endocrinologist Howard Zacur of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. "Changes in the cycle at this time of life were misinterpreted and misdiagnosed...
...coming home from work." An estrogen patch (plus progesterone pills) evened out her moods. HRT can sometimes alleviate vaguer woes -- the generalized achiness that some women feel and a sense of mental fogging. There is a "euphoric effect or general improvement in mental state," says Cleveland endocrinologist Wulf Utian, co-founder of the North American Menopause Society...
...woman must use estrogen continuously for at least seven years, according to recent data from the Framingham study in Boston. Currently, 95% of women on HRT take it for three years or less -- "not long enough to get any positive effects on their bones," says Dr. John Gallagher, an endocrinologist at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska...
Since Baulieu first encountered DHEA more than three decades ago, it has been scrutinized by many researchers, most extensively by Dr. Samuel Yen, an endocrinologist at the medical school of the University of California at San Diego. In a 1986 study, Yen and a colleague found a correlation between low DHEA levels and death from cardiovascular disease...