{"id":238346,"date":"2026-06-04T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hormone-therapy-use-for-menopause-declines-despite-proven-benefits-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:09:24","slug":"hormone-therapy-use-for-menopause-declines-despite-proven-benefits-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hormone-therapy-use-for-menopause-declines-despite-proven-benefits-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Hormone therapy use for menopause declines despite proven benefits, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9DVd_EEqLTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hormone therapy use among women in the U.S. remains low, even though it\u2019s an effective treatment for many menopause symptoms, according to a new Mayo Clinic study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinicproceedings.org\/article\/S0025-6196(25)36687-5\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Menopause affects more than one million women each year in the U.S., and up to 75% experience symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats that can last for years. Yet researchers have found that use of menopausal hormone therapy has steadily declined over time.<\/p>\n<p>The new study found that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-09-years-decline-menopausal-hormone-therapy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">hormone therapy use<\/a> dropped from 4.4% in 2007 to 1.7% in 2023. Even among women most likely to benefit\u2014those ages 50 to 59\u2014only about 3.5% were using hormone therapy in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hormone therapy use among women in the U.S. remains low, even though it\u2019s an effective treatment for many menopause symptoms, according to a new Mayo Clinic study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Menopause affects more than one million women each year in the U.S., and up to 75% experience symptoms such as hot flashes and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}