Treatments and supplements · GnRH agonist therapy
Does GnRH agonist therapy help hyperandrogenic women?
What we can tell you today: how thoroughly this has been studied.
The evidence stops at small studies
3 studies in people, but all of them small or without a comparison group. Enough to suspect something, too little to be sure.
3 Small study in people 3 studies
This says how thoroughly something has been studied — not whether it works for you. What each study actually found is in the study itself, and in the plain-language write-ups we are adding.
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The studies
- 3 Small study in people
Spironolactone, but not flutamide, administration prevents bone loss in hyperandrogenic women treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist.
1999 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 15 participants
- 3 Small study in people
High bone density in hyperandrogenic women: effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist alone or in conjunction with estrogen-progestin replacement.
1996 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
- 3 Small study in people
Combination gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and oral contraceptive therapy improves treatment of hirsute women with ovarian hyperandrogenism.
1995 · Fertility and sterility