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hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for transgender and transsexual people replaces the hormones naturally occurring in their bodies with those of the other sex. Its purpose is to cause the development of the secondary sexual characteristics of the desired gender. It can not undo the changes produced by the first natural occurring puberty of transgender people, this is done by sexual reassignment surgery and for transwomen by epilation. ...
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HRT. Hormones (estrogen, progesterone, or both) given to women after menopause to replace the hormones no longer produced by the ovaries. Also called menopausal hormone therapy.
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(HRT). A therapeutic preparation of oestrogens, usually combined with a small amount of progestins, that is prescribed to alleviate some of the physical and psychological manifestations of menopause which are believed to result from the loss of ovarian function.
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| hormone replacement therapy |
use of the female hormones estrogen and progestin (a synthetic form of progesterone) to replace those the body no longer produces after menopause.
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