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From its inception, estrogen treatments for menopausal women were conflated with general facets of aging that women experience, with the effect that from the beginning, scientists were interested in estrogen and HT for these broad concerns, and early research as well as continuing use and promotion often had a “fountain of youth” quality. Menopause was seen as not just a decline in estrogen, but a general and absolute decline in a woman’s attractiveness and quality of life. Her ovaries were described as shriveling with menopause, and that metaphor was also used to describe her postmenopausal quality of life and self-identity.
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Sherif, K. (2013). History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions. In: Hormone Therapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6268-2_14
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