Hormone replacement therapy: limited response in the UK to the new evidence

[摘要] Following the publication of major trials and other studies of hormone replacement therapy,1,2 patients in the UK have been advised not to take the drug long-term and to limit short-term use.3 Response to the new evidence in terms of prescribing in the US has been published recently4 and we thought it important to assess changes in use in England. Prevalence of use in England increased steadily in the 25 years to 2001, rising 10-fold from 1980 to the mid 1990s;5 numbers of prescriptions continued to rise between 1998 and 2001 by over 1% per year, but fell in 2002,6 the year the major recent evidence was published.

[学科分类] 卫生学