Endocrine Abstracts

Over the last two decades, the menopause management pendulum has swung wildly. After the publication of the Women’s health initiative study in 2002, few women were prescribed HRT. With the recent increased awareness in the U.K. media, many women are requesting HRT, to the point that medication shortages have occurred. This overview will summarise the current national recommendations and how we arrived here. The talk will cover the implications of the increased menopause awareness among women, where we are now concerning the implications of menopause on long-term health, workplace concerns, risks and benefits of HRT and other relevant approaches to improve the menopause transition and postmenopausal health safely.