title: [Attitudes of women to estrogen use seen from the medical point of view].
abstract: Hormone replacement therapy is a personal not a theoretical question for women. This article reviews the literature on the use of oestrogen assessed from the personal female perspective which emerges when the hormones are to be taken by myself. I should probably choose oestrogens for myself if I suffered very troublesome oestrogen-related climacteric vasomotor or atrophic symptoms. The increased risk of breast cancer would make me delay such treatment as long as possible. -Until reliable and valid methods for individual risk assessment are available I should prefer physiological and less risky ways of preventing my own osteoporosis than years of hormone treatment. If, in old age, I may need oestriols to prevent urogenital troubles I am glad to know that they are efficient and involve little risk. Nevertheless, I should not want to take hormones "to be on the safe side".
authors.affiliation: Institutt for allmennmedisin, Universitetet i Bergen, Ulriksdal.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Malterud
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002979:Climacteric / Q000187:drug effects; D004967:Estrogens / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D004967:Estrogens