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The debate concerning the side-effects of oestrogen therapy for post-menopausal women is currently causing much anxiety, but of no less importance is the need for a clear understanding of the symptomatology and the endocrine changes of the climacteric syndrome. It is a truism to state that the best way to prevent complications of treatment is to withhold such treatment particularly in patients where this therapy is inappropriate. It follows that the correct selection of patients and a general agreement about symptoms which are due to oestrogen deficiency, rather than the results of the many life stresses of the middle years, is vital. Any carelessness in the criteria for treatment will lead to the misuse of oestrogen replacement therapy which will then be in danger of becoming the therapeutic crutch of stressed womankind, such as has happened with tranquillizers in the last two decades.
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Studd, J.W.W. et al. (1979). The climacteric syndrome. In: van Keep, P.A., Serr, D.M., Greenblatt, R.B. (eds) Female and Male Climacteric. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9720-5_4
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