Prevalence of Contraindications to Hormone Replacement Therapy in Middle-Aged Women in a Managed Care Setting

摘要: ABSTRACT Although hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women is widespread and increasing, clinicians generally lack adequate information about contraindications to HRT their prevalence. We conducted a study on the prevalence of select using database abstracted medical records randomly selected sample adult female members (age range 40 55 years) large health maintenance organization (HMO). Breast cancer endometrial were defined as absolute contraindications; 13 other conditions cited in three or more recent articles relative contraindications. Almost 9% had an contraindication, 44% contraindication documented records. In each 5-year period between 55, 1 5 at least one her record. Since may be considered therapeutic preventive use in...