Abstract:
:The purpose of this study is to compare the psychosomatic symptoms of postmenopausal women who are users of hormonal treatment with the psychosomatic symptoms of nonusers. We studied 68 postmenopausal women receiving estrogen treatment (age range 48-56 years; 51.1 +/- 1.9, mean +/- SD) and 50 postmenopausal women (age range 45-55 years; 50.7 +/- 2.5) as controls. The symptoms we studied were: (1) nightly perspiration; (2) vasomotor flushes; (3) dyspnea; (4) vertigo; (5) headache; (6) disturbance of libido; (7) depression, and (8) anxiety. We found a beneficial effect of estrogen treatment in nightly perspiration (p less than 0.01), vasomotor flushes (p less than 0.001) and disturbance of libido (p less than 0.01). We found no difference between the two groups in dyspnea, vertigo, headache, depression and anxiety. Our findings show that with hormonal treatment in postmenopausal women there is a beneficial effect in only some psychosomatic symptoms.
journal_name
Psychother Psychosomjournal_title
Psychotherapy and psychosomaticsauthors
Iatrakis G,Haronis N,Sakellaropoulos G,Kourkoubas A,Gallos Mdoi
10.1159/000287971subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1986-01-01 00:00:00pages
116-21issue
3eissn
0033-3190issn
1423-0348journal_volume
46pub_type
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更新日期:1982-01-01 00:00:00
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