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Prempro (estrogen and medroxyprogesterone acetate)
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- Esterified estrogens - Menest
- Estrogen (estradiol) patches - Alora / Climara / Estraderm / Vivelle / Menostar
- Vaginal estrogen - Estring / Premarin
- Combination estrogen and methyltestosterone - Estratest
- Medroxyprogesterone - Cycrin / Provera
- Estrogen progestin tablets - Activella / Femhrt / Prempro
- Estrogen and progesterone patch - Combipatch
- Estrogen cream - Estrasorb
- Drospirenone and estradoil - Yasmin
/ Angeliq
- Transdermal - EstroGel® (estradiol gel)
/ Elestrin™/Bio-E-Gel® (estradiol gel)
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News & Research:
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Lowest Effective Dose of Prempro (Conjugated Estrogens/Medroxyprogesterone)
Now Available in the US - Doctor's Guide, 2/20/04
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New Low Dose Hormone Therapy Prempro (Estrogen/ Medroxyprogesterone)
Available in US - Doctor's Guide, 7/1/03
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Oestrogen Plus Progestin Therapy Ups Risk of Breast Cancer, Risk of Advanced
Stage at Diagnosis - Doctor's Guide, 6/25/03 -
"randomly assigned to receive daily equine
oestrogens (0.625 mg) plus medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg) ...
postmenopausal oestrogen plus progestin use significantly increases the
incidence of breast cancer within a 5-year period"
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FDA Approves New Strength of Prempro, Low Dose Hormone Therapy -
Doctor's Guide, 6/9/03 -
"Prempro 0.3 mg/1.5 mg is approved for the treatment
of moderate to severe symptoms associated with menopause, such as hot
flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness; and for the prevention of
postmenopausal osteoporosis."
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Combined Hormone Replacement Therapy May Increase Risk Of Dementia In
Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 5/29/03 -
"participants received either 1 daily tablet of 0.625 mg conjugated equine
oestrogen plus 2.5 mg medroxyprogesterone acetate ... the risk of probable
dementia for women in the treatment group was twice that of women receiving
placebo"
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HRT Now Linked to Alzheimer's, Dementia - WebMD, 5/27/03 - "Progestin
has been shown to modify the beneficial effects of estrogen -- possibly
increasing the risk of heart disease and dementia ... A woman's age when she
begins taking HRT, how long she takes it, and if she gets it from a patch or
a pill -- all could have an effect on her risk"
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Oestrogen Plus Progestin Increases Risk of Stroke in Postmenopausal Women
- Doctor's Guide, 5/25/03
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Hormone Replacement Normalises Cholesterol in African-American Women -
Doctor's Guide, 5/18/03 -
"randomised to daily combination HRT consisting of
0.625 of conjugated oestrogen and 2.5 mg of medroxyprogesterone ... Overall,
the women had an 8% increase in total HDL
cholesterol ... They found an 8% reduction in the ratio of LDL to HDL ...
LDL composition measurements were not changed"
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Femhrt Increases Endothelial Dysfunction in Postmenopausal Non-Smokers -
Doctor's Guide, 5/6/03 -
"Femhrt subjects showed a
statistically significant mean increase in
vasodilation versus placebo in healthy women who never smoked ...
Prempro and
Evista showed no such
endothelial benefits for this subgroup or the smoker group"
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Renin Substrate Levels Decrease with Transdermal Hormone Therapy and
Increase with Oral Hormone Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/03 -
"Oral Prempro (conjugated equine
estrogen/medroxyprogesterone) appears to increase plasma levels of renin
substrate (angiotensinogen) to a significantly greater extent than
CombiPatch (estradiol/norethindrone) ... The problem is that increases
in the renin substrate (RS) can trigger activity in
[renin-angiogenesis-aldosterone system] that can lead, in turn, to higher
blood pressure and, possibly, hypertension"
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Transdermal Hormones Better than Oral for Improving Women's Sexual Quality
of Life - Doctor's Guide, 5/2/03 -
"At end point (20 weeks), 33% of 81 women on
CombiPatch
eported improvement in Quality of Life scores
compared to 17% of 84 on Prempro"
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FDA Approves Lower Dose Prempro (Conjugated Estrogens/ Medroxyprogesterone
Acetate) - Doctor's Guide, 3/13/03
- Study Finds
Breast Cancer Risk Due to Progestins in HRT - WebMD, 3/5/03 -
"Women who take combination hormone replacement
therapy for more than four years are at very high risk of
breast cancer compared with women who have never used HRT. But
estrogen-only HRT is virtually free of breast-cancer risk"
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Estradiol Alone Does Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide,
12/16/02 -
"Hormone replacement therapy containing progestins
significantly elevates breast cancer risk,
but preparations containing estradiol alone do not, a large Swedish
observational study suggests"
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Increased Risks Lead To Halt In Large US Estrogen/Progestin Trial -
Doctor's Guide, 7/9/02 -
"overall heath risks exceeded benefits from the use
of conjugated equine estrogens (0.625 milligrams per day) plus
medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/d), combined in one tablet"
- Stop Taking
Prempro, Doctors Warn - WebMD, 7/9/02
- Hormone Therapy
Linked to Ovarian Cancer - WebMD, 4/2/02 -
"ovarian cancer risk almost doubled in those taking
either estrogen alone or an estrogen plus progestin regimen in which
progestin is not given every day (known as cyclic HRT). The researchers
found no increased ovarian cancer risk in women taking continuous HRT, in
which progestin is always given with estrogen"
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Hormone In Contraceptive Fights Cancer - Intelihealth, 1/2/02 -
"Progestin is the ingredient in oral contraceptive
pills that provides the highest level of protection against
ovarian cancer ... the cancer risk was cut by about 50 percent in all
women taking pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin ...
However, women who took pills containing high levels of progestin reduced
their risk of ovarian cancer by an additional 50 percent"
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