The Prescriber's Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy (Hardcover)

Concentrating on hormone replacement therapy for a wide range of diseases, this textbook includes coverage of osteoporosis and HRT and arterial health. It discusses HRT prescriptions in: Alzheimer's disease, postmenopause and apparently health patients; intrauterine disease and irregular bleeding (fibroids, polyps and hyperplasia); endometrial cancer; endometriosis and breast cancer; benign breast disease, diabetes and progestogen intolerance; previous cases of venous thrombosis; and in women with previous and current arterial disease. The book also examines concurrent risk factors for arterial disease, hypertension, obesity and hyperlipidemias and for women with hypertriglyceridemia.