The (admittedly limited) toolkit we need RN

Part 1 on the new Climacteric report

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You don’t know what you don’t know.

If only more of the world remembered.

I was reminded on Tuesday when this dropped in the journal Climacteric: The 2023 Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing Menopause.

This is the badly needed global handbook for doctors I didn’t even know existed, an update to the original published in 2014. (And although I only really discovered perimenopause in 2017, entered this space casually in 2018, and formally in early 2020, I should have.)

Menopause hormone therapy as a safe route for symptoms? Sure. Menopause hormone therapy for disease prevention and longevity? Maybe. Probably? One example of this is the work of a team that includes Dr Lisa Mosconi, director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program and of the Women’s Brain Initiative and an associate professor in the department of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, on hormone therapy and dementia prevention in midlife women.

They recently released a meta-analysis showing pr…