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Article: Progesterone Cream in Menopause.
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- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Progesterone Cream in Menopause
By Judith L. Balk, MD, MPH, FACOG. Dr. Balk is Assistant Professor, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh; she reports no financial relationship to this field of study.
Lay books and web sites tout the benefits of progesterone cream for use in menopausal women. A Google search reveals roughly 338,000 results when the term "progesterone cream" is entered. In contrast, when the term "progesterone" is combined with the term "cream" in Medline, 62 results are obtained. When the term "menopause" is added to the Medline search, only 11 articles remain, and when the term "perimenopause" is used, no articles appear.
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