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Claims as to the beneficial effects of estrogen therapy on symptomatic and psychological changes of the menopause vary enormously. On the one hand there arc the rather exaggerated claims of Wilson and Wilson1 who believe estrogen to be a panacea for all post-menopausal ills and the media who are at present promoting HRT as the ‘happy pill’, while on the other hand there are workers like Utian2, 3 who believe that the only effects of estrogen therapy are to control vasomotor symptoms and atrophic vaginitis. Utian, in one of the few well documented placebo controlled trials found that estrogen had no effect on insomnia, irritability, depression, palpitations, backache or libido although he did observe a ‘mental tonic’ effect with oral estrogen.
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Campbell, S. (1976). Double blind psychometric studies on the effects of natural estrogens on post-menopausal women. In: Campbell, S. (eds) The Management of the Menopause & Post-Menopausal Years. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6165-7_13
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