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Estrogen Targets the Larynx.(by helping to prevent atrophy/distrophy)

Women's Health Weekly

| February 15, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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, ...

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