Hormone replacement therapy offers 'enormous benefits to women' and should be the first line of treatment for menopause symptoms, says a health watchdog today.
Hormone replacement therapy offers ‘enormous benefits to women’ and should be the first line of treatment for menopause symptoms, says a health watchdog today.
But in an apparent move away from draft guidelines published last year, it said cognitive behavioural therapy should only be considered in addition to HRT, unless women are unable to, or do not want to take, the medication. Hormone replacement therapy offers ‘enormous benefits to women’ and should be the first line of treatment for menopause symptoms, says a health watchdog today
Professor Jonathan Benger, chief medical officer and interim director of the centre for guidelines at Nice, said: ‘HRT is our recommended first-line treatment for vasomotor symptoms , and we recommend that that should be offered to women, providing that it meets their needs, and following an informed discussion.
Alongside the revised guidelines, the regulator has developed a ‘discussion aid’ for GPs and patients.
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