The Menopause: Comprehensive Management, Fourth Edition

This fully updated new edition of an acclaimed clinical textbook on management of the menopause offers 21 detailed chapters by the field's leading expert. These leading authorities cover aging and the menopause, endocrinology of the menopause, clinical problems, and therapy. Chapters on clinical problems discuss osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, exercise, gynecologic problems, urologic problems, the breast, cognitive changes, psychosexual problems, nutrition, and alternative therapies. Chapters on therapy discuss the pharmacology of hormonal therapeutic agents and hormone replacement therapy, routes of administration of estrogen and progesterone, and the relationship between estrogen replacement therapy and cancer.