{"id":17049,"date":"2023-03-07T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=17049"},"modified":"2023-03-07T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:36:25","slug":"testosterone-as-a-treatment-for-menopause-symptoms-what-do-you-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=17049","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone as a treatment for menopause symptoms: Could you help with your views?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ahS2Le\">\n<div class=\"F9yp7e ikZYwf LgNcQe\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NIHR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17053\" src=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NIHR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NIHR.jpg 200w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NIHR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NIHR-174x174.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The National Institute of Health Research wants to fund research on the benefits and risks of testosterone in women during the menopause and has issued an invitation to take part in a survey.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\">Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is an effective way of treating symptoms experienced by women during menopause. There is interest whether testosterone could be used to treat some symptoms associated with menopause.<\/div>\n<div class=\"cBGGJ OIC90c\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdFKP6Swtzvy4IX4osvQOd3JvdVpVQbJgg2_GxJ4_LjborVWw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This short survey<\/a> should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Your responses are confidential.<\/p>\n<p>We are a team of clinicians, researchers, and women in menopause who are designing a trial to compare testosterone to a placebo (dummy treatment).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cBGGJ OIC90c\" dir=\"auto\">To make sure that the trial is acceptable to women who have menopausal symptoms, we would like your views.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cBGGJ OIC90c\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Health Research wants to fund research on the benefits and risks of testosterone in women during the menopause and has issued an invitation to take part in a survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17055,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions\/17055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}