The efficacy and safety of alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms in light of recent evidence

Abstract

Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is recognized as the most effective treatment of vaso-motor symptoms in women during menopausal transition and in postmenopause [1, 2]. Although various alternative therapies are widely used for this purpose, there is little sufficient evidence to support them. The market of the so-called natural plant preparations has been on the rise recently, although the effects of most of such preparations are not better than those of the placebo [3]. Many physicians and women mistakenly believe that absence of data on any adverse effects of alternative MHT medicines evidences their safety. [4]

Keywords

• дополнительные альтернативные методы лечения
• тканеспецифический эстрогеновый комплекс
• селективные ингибиторы обратного захвата серотонина и норадреналина
• менопаузальные симптомы
• фитоэстрогены
• menopausal symptoms
• additional alternative therapies
• phytoestrogens
• selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
• selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
• tissue selective estrogen complex
• menopausal symptoms
• phytoestrogens