Definition of hormone replacement therapy in US English:
hormone replacement therapy
(also HRT)
nounˈhɔrˌmoʊn rəˈpleɪsmənt
Treatment with estrogens with the aim of alleviating menopausal symptoms or osteoporosis.
Example sentencesExamples
- If oestrogens are protective, what about hormone replacement therapy?
- Secondly, the trials used either oestrogen alone or combination hormone replacement therapy.
- All premenopausal women who underwent hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy were given hormone replacement therapy.
- Her medical history is significant only for hormone replacement therapy for the past 12 years.
- Until recently, hormone replacement therapy was thought to be good for incontinence.
- Some general practitioners expressed certainty about the effect of hormone replacement therapy.
- Testroxin Gel should not be used as a substitute for medically supervised hormone replacement therapy.
- So the headlines have dealt another blow to the image of hormone replacement therapy.
- The use of hormone replacement therapy to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis is a good example.
- The controversy over hormone replacement therapy, or HRT as it's known, never seems to go away.
- Sixteen of these women completed five years of treatment with continuous combined hormone replacement therapy and six withdrew from the study.
- Synthetic sex hormones are widely used for contraception and hormone replacement therapy.
- It's okay to take birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy at the same time as depression medicines.
- The standard treatment of ovarian failure and hot flashes has been hormone replacement therapy.
- Should oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy be discontinued before surgery?
- At present, long term hormone replacement therapy should be given only on an individual basis, depending on the needs and risk factors of the patient.
- The WHI study was responsible for millions of women stopping hormone replacement therapy around the world.
- The use of hormone replacement therapy to reduce cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women is on the rise.
- The benefit of hormone replacement therapy in women following myocardial infarction is unclear.
- For example, women working in leadership roles may find hot flushes problematic and take hormone replacement therapy while in that role.