Search for dissertations about: "hormone replacement therapy"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 85 swedish dissertations containing the words hormone replacement therapy.

  2. 16. Hormone therapy and the breast : aspects on proliferation, apoptosis and mammographic density

    Author : Peter Conner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Breast cell proliferation; fine needle aspiration cytology; menopause; hormone replacement therapy; tibolone; mammographic breast density; continuous combined hormone therapy; p53; apoptosis; cynomolgus macaques.;

    Abstract : Breast cancer is the major malignancy among women in the western world. The breast is clearly a target organ for sex steroid hormones and hormonal treatments have been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Still, basic knowledge as to how sex steroids influence the normal breast is remarkably poor. READ MORE

  4. 17. Changes in bone mass and skeletal structure in the postmenopausal period

    Author : Henrik Ahlborg; Ortopedi - klinisk och molekylär osteoporosforskning; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; orthopaedics; Surgery; hormone replacement therapy.; physical activity; bone strength; bone size; bone loss; longitudinal; Menopause; bone mineral density; traumatology; Kirurgi; ortopedi; traumatologi;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to evaluate long-term changes in bone mass and skeletal structure in the forearm in the peri- and postmenopausal period. 156 premenopausal women, at baseline aged 48 years, not taking medications and without disease processes known to interfere with bone metabolism, were followed through menopause by measurements of bone mass and skeletal structure at the cortical site of the distal radius by single photon absorptiometry, on average every second year until age 72. READ MORE

  5. 18. Risk Talk : On Communicating Benefits and Harms in Health Care

    Author : Mikael Hoffmann; Karin Kjellgren; Mats Hammar; Johan Ahlner; Bengt Mattson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; risk; communication; menopause; hormone replacement therapy; physician-patient relations; Clinical pharmacology; Klinisk farmakologi;

    Abstract : One of the most critical elements in empowering the patient, and ensuring concordance, is communication of the possible benefits and harms of different actions in health care. Risk assessment is a complex task due both to the different interpretations of the concept of risk, and the common lack of hard facts. READ MORE

  6. 19. Muscles, Estrogen, and Bone

    Author : Eva Ljunggren Ribom; Hans Mallmin; Karin Piehl-Aulin; Kim Thorsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Surgery; Muscle strength; Bone mineral density; Ultrasound; Body composition; Hormone replacement therapy; Estrogen receptor alpha; Kirurgi; Surgery; Kirurgi;

    Abstract : Sweden has one of the highest incidences of osteoporotic fractures in the world. A more sedentary lifestyle is one of several proposed reasons for the increase in osteoporosis seen in the developed countries. READ MORE

  7. 20. The climacteric. Management and attitudes among women and physicians

    Author : Louise Thunell; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : climacteric; epidemiology; longitudinal; climacteric symptoms; hormone replacement therapy; attitudes; knowledge; gynecologists; postmenopausal; type 2 diabetes; hyperandrogenicity; glucose homeostasis; lipids; PAI-1;

    Abstract : Aims: Paper I: To longitudinally assess the prevalence of climacteric symptoms, the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and life-style factors in the same women in 1992 (aged 46-62 years) and in 1998 (aged 52-68 years). Paper II: To study changes in (i) the prevalence of HRT use and (ii) attitudes and knowledge about the climacteric among 46-62 years old women resident in Göteborg 1992 and 1998. READ MORE