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Question 1

What is considered by most clinicians to be the best treatment for the vasomotor symptoms and bone loss of menopause?

Answer 1

estrogen replacement therapy

Question 2

What adverse effect of menopause is raloxifene useful to combat?

Answer 2

bone loss

Question 3

What is the most common location of an osteoporosis-related fracture? What kind of a fracture is this?

Answer 3

thoracic spine (compression fracture)

Question 4

Why is progestin added to estrogen replacement therapy for post-menopausal women?

Answer 4

prevent endometrial cancer

Question 5

What neurological structure will be inhibited by either hypothyroidism or hyperprolactinemia?

Answer 5

hypothalamus

Question 6

How do hypothyroidism and hyperprolactinemia cause amenorrhea?

Answer 6

less GnRH–>less FSH & LH–>less estrogen

Question 7

What structure is damaged in Sheehan’s syndrome?

Answer 7

pituitary

Question 8

What structure becomes dysfunctional when excessive exercise leads to amenhorrea?

Answer 8

hypothalamus