Jung, Byung Hwa Jeon, Myting Jae Bai, Sang Wook 2024-01-20T23:03:27Z 2024-01-20T23:03:27Z 2021-09-03 2008-06-30 0513-5796 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/133379 One of the major social issues nowadays is the aging society. Korea is already an aging society, and 63 cities and districts are ultra-aged societies where the rate of people older than 65 yr exceeds 20%. Among them, more than 67% are women. These statistics reveal the importance of healthcare for older women. Disease and disability of older women are very closely related to the loss of female sex hormones after menopause. Major hormone-dependent aging problems in women such as osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease (AD), urinary incontinence, and coronary atherosclerosis were surveyed in this review, and the key role of hormones in those diseases and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were summarized. We expect that this review would provide some understanding of factors that must be considered to give optimal care to older women for healthy lives. English YONSEI UNIV COLL MEDICINE ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE CONJUGATED EQUINE ESTROGENS POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE URINARY-INCONTINENCE PLUS PROGESTIN ENDOGENOUS STEROIDS RECEPTOR MODULATOR Hormone-dependent aging problems in women Article 10.3349/ymj.2008.49.3.345 1 YONSEI MEDICAL JOURNAL, v.49, no.3, pp.345 - 351 YONSEI MEDICAL JOURNAL 49 3 345 351 scie scopus kci 000257277000001 2-s2.0-48649089334 Medicine, General & Internal General & Internal Medicine Review ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE CONJUGATED EQUINE ESTROGENS POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE URINARY-INCONTINENCE PLUS PROGESTIN ENDOGENOUS STEROIDS RECEPTOR MODULATOR aging sex hormone menopause