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Women’s Health and Menopause pp 45–53Cite as

Connective Tissue Changes

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The menopause constitutes a watershed in a woman’s life that leads to profound changes in several systems. As the realization of the multisystem nature of these changes, ranging from psychological to bone to cardiovascular, has developed, so also has the awareness that many of these changes can be prevented or completely modified with therapy. The mainstay of this therapy continues to be the appropriate use of estrogen.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    R. Paoletti

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    P. G. Crosignani

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    P. Kenemans

  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    G. Samsioe

  5. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    M. R. Soma

  6. Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA

    A. S. Jackson (Managing Editor) (Managing Editor)

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Brincat, M., Galea, R. (1997). Connective Tissue Changes. In: Paoletti, R., Crosignani, P.G., Kenemans, P., Samsioe, G., Soma, M.R., Jackson, A.S. (eds) Women’s Health and Menopause. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5560-1_7

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