Alternative Therapies for Traditional Disease States: Menopause -- American Family Physician
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Treating Vasomotor Symptoms Although 85 percent of perimenopausal women have vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes), only one half of these women find them disturbing. Twenty percent of women will experience symptoms for less than one year, but approximately 50 percent of women may experience symptoms for five years or more. Conventional estrogen therapy is effective in controlling symptoms in more than 90 percent of women.
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