Changes in Bone Mineral Content in Women with Natural Menopause During Treatment with Female Sex Hormones
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 57 (5) , 435-437
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016347809156525
Abstract
The bone mineral content was determined in 11 women with a natural menopause by X-ray spectrophotometry during treatment with a combination of estrogens and a gestagen. During a 3-year follow-up period the hormone-treated women significantly increased (P < 0.05) their mineral content by 3% a year on average, as compared with a control group. Even in patients who had passed the menopause several years previously, the increase occurred and was particularly great during the 1st year of treatment.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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