Session Information
2011 Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting
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Menopause: A Risk Due to Hormonal Change or Aging?
Track
:
Track 5 — Clinical and Professional Practice
Program Code:
305
Date:
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Time:
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
EST
SPEAKER
(S):
Deborah Clegg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Barbara Gower, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jennifer Lovejoy, Alere Wellbeing
Description
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how symptoms may be related to changing estrogen levels.
- Explain how estrogen helps control bone loss, and losing estrogen around the time of menopause causes women to lose more bone than is replaced causing osteoporosis.
- Explain that as women age, they may gain weight and develop other problems, like high blood pressure which could put them at greater risk for heart disease.
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