Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Skin Viscoelasticity During Climacteric Aging

During perimenopause, the skin and a series of other organs become altered as prominent sex hormone declines. The natural climacteric is associated with a decline in functional properties of various tissues including viscoelasticity of the dermal connective tissue. There are many ways for assessing in vivo skin viscoelasticity, and the various procedures frequently measure distinct physical characteristics. The suction method has been selected by a majority of investigators looking at dermal functional changes during climacteric. Some women benefit from oral hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or transdermal estrogen therapy (TET) for controlling some unpleasant climacteric changes (osteoporosis, vasomotor instability, skin withering, dermal depletion in versican-hyaluronic acid, etc.). In particular, the hormonal repair exhibits some preventive and corrective effects in the functional decline of the dermal physical properties.