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2001 FEB 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Maryclaire Lindgren, staff medical writer -- Speak out ladies, because estrogen replacement therapy helps keep that voice loud and clear.
Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), which helps ease vaginal atrophy/dystrophy, does the same thing for the larynx, according to S. Caruso, of Catania, Italy, and associates.
"Our study confirms that the larynx is an estrogen target, as are vaginal cells. ERT may provide prevention and treatment of dystrophic pathologies of the vocal cords in postmenopausal women," Caruso et al. reported.
The researchers' analysis of estrogen's effect on laryngeal cytology included 65 healthy, postmenopausal women divided into an ERT group and a control group ("Laryngeal cytological aspects in women with surgically induced menopause who were treated with transdermal estrogen replacement therapy," Fertility and Sterility, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Estrogen Targets the Larynx.(by helping to prevent atrophy/distrophy)