The effect of estrogen plus progestin treatment on sleep: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial in premenopausal and late postmenopausal women

References

• Leger D, Quilleminault C, Dreyfus J, Delahaye C, Paillard M. Prevalence of insomnia in a survey of 12 778 adults in France. J Sleep Res 2000; 9: 35–42
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kravitz H M, Ganz P A, Bromberger J, Powell L H, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Meyer P M. Sleep difficulty in women at midlife: a community survey of sleep and the menopausal transition. Menopause 2003; 10: 19–28
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Erkkola R, Holma P, Järvi T, et al. Transdermal oestrogen replacement therapy in a Finnish population. Maturitas 1991; 13: 275–281
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wiklund I, Karlberg J, Mattson L-Å. Quality of life of postmenopausal women on a regimen of transdermal estradiol therapy: a double-blind placebo-controlled study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993; 168: 824–830
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Polo-Kantola P, Erkkola R, Helenius H, Irjala K, Polo O. When does estrogen replacement therapy improve sleep quality. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1998; 178: 1002–1009
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sarti C D, Chiantera A, Graziottin A, et al. Hormone therapy and sleep quality in women around menopause. Menopause 2005; 12: 545–551
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burger H. Hormone replacement therapy in the post-Women's Health Initiative era. A report of a meeting held in Funchal, Madeira, February 24–25, 2003. Climacteric 2003; 6: S11–S36
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Skouby S O. Climacteric medicine: European Menopause and Andropause Society statements on postmenopausal hormonal therapy. Maturitas 2004; 48: 19–25
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saletu-Zyhlarz G M, Anderer P, Gruber G, et al. Insomnia related to postmenopausal syndrome and hormone replacement therapy: sleep laboratory studies on baseline differences between patients and controls and double-blind, placebo-controlled investigations on the effects of a novel estrogen-progestogen combination (Climodien®, Lafamme®) versus estrogen alone. J Sleep Res 2003; 12: 239–254
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thomson J, Oswald I. Effect of oestrogen on the sleep, mood, and anxiety of menopausal women. Br Med J 1977; 2: 1317–1319
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schiff I, Regestein Q, Tulchinsky D, Ryan K J. Effects of estrogens on sleep and psychological state of hypogonadal women. JAMA 1979; 242: 2405–2407
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Erlik Y, Tataryn I V, Meldrum D R, Lomax P, Bajorek J G, Judd H L. Association of waking episodes with menopausal hot flushes. JAMA 1981; 245: 1741–1744
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scharf M B, McDannold M D, Stover R, Zaretsky N, Berkowitz D V. Effects of estrogen replacement therapy on rates of cyclic alternating patterns and hot-flush events during sleep in postmenopausal women: a pilot study. Clin Ther 1997; 19: 304–311
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Polo-Kantola P, Erkkola R, Irjala K, Pullinen S, Virtanen I, Polo O. Effect of short-term transdermal estrogen replacement therapy on sleep: a randomized, double-blind crossover trial in postmenopausal women. Fertil Steril 1999; 71: 873–880
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Keefe D L, Watson R, Naftolin F. Hormone replacement therapy may alleviate sleep apnea in menopausal women: a pilot study. Menopause 1999; 6: 196–200
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Antonijevic I A, Stalla G K, Steiger A. Modulation of the sleep electroencephalogram by estrogen replacement therapy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000; 182: 277–282
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Montplaisir J, Lorrain J, Denesle R, Petit D. Sleep in menopause: differential effects of two forms of hormone replacement therapy. Menopause 2001; 8: 10–16
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Parry B L, Meliska C J, Martinez L F, et al. Menopause: neuroendocrine changes and hormone replacement therapy. J Am Med Womens Assoc 2004; 59: 135–145
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• McEwen B S, Alves S E. Estrogen actions in the central nervous system. Endocr Rev 1999; 20: 279–307
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lancel M, Faulhaber J, Holsboer F, Rupprecht R. Progesterone induces changes in sleep comparable to those of agonistic GABAa receptor modulators. Am J Physiol 1996; 271: E763–E772
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steiger A, Antonijevic I A, Bohlhalter S, Frieboes R M, Friess E, Murck H. Effects of hormones on sleep. Horm Res 1998; 49: 125
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Regensteiner J G, Woodard W D, Hagerman D D, et al. Combined effects of female hormones and metabolic rate on ventilatory drives in women. J Appl Physiol 1989; 66: 808–813
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang B, Wing Y-K. Sex differences in insomnia: a meta-analysis. Sleep 2006; 29: 85–93
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barnabei V M, Grady D, Stovall D W, et al. Menopausal symptoms in older women and the effects of treatment with hormone therapy. Obstet Gynecol 2002; 100: 1209–1218
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kryger M, Monjan A, Bliwises D, Ancoli-Israel S. Sleep, health and aging. Bridging the gap between science and clinical practice. Geriatrics 2004; 59: 24–30
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rechtschaffen A, Kales A. A Manual of Standardized Terminology, Techniques and Scoring Systems for Sleep Stages of Human Subjects. Brain Information Service/Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles 1968
   Google Scholar
• The Atlas Task Force, Bonnet M, Carley D, Carskadon M, et al. ASDA report. EEG arousals: scoring rules and examples. Sleep 1992; 15: 173–184
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Feinberg I, Floyd T C. Systematic trends across the night in human sleep cycles. Psychophysiology 1979; 16: 283–291
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heinzer R, Gaudreau H, Décary A, Sforza E. Slow-wave activity in sleep apnea patients before and after continuous positive airway pressure treatment. Chest 2001; 119: 1807–1813
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Partinen M, Gislason T. Basic Nordic Sleep Questionnaire (BNSQ): a quantitated measure of subjective sleep complaints. J Sleep Res 1995; 4: 150–155
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ohinmaa A, Sintonen H (1996) Quality of life of Finnish population as measured by EuroQol. EuroQol, Plenary meeting, BarcelonaSpain, Oct, 3–51995, X Badia, M Herdman, A Segura. Catalan Institute of Public Health, Barcelona, 161–172, Discussion papers
   Google Scholar
• Beck A T, Ward C H, Mendelson M, Mock J, Erbaugh J. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psych 1961; 4: 561–571
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vestergaard P, Hermann A P, Stilgren L, et al. Effects of 5 years of hormonal replacement therapy on menopausal symptoms and blood pressure – randomised controlled study. Maturitas 2003; 46: 123–132
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gambacciani M, Ciaponi M, Cappagli B, et al. Effects of low-dose, continuous combined estradiol and norethisterone acetate on menopausal quality of life in early postmenopausal women. Maturitas 2003; 44: 157–163
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saaresranta T, Aittokallio T, Utriainen K, Polo O. Medroxyprogesterone improves nocturnal breathing in postmenopausal women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respir Res 2005; 6: 28
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Liu J H. Therapeutic effects of progestins, androgens, and tibolone for menopausal symptoms. Am J Med 2005; 118: S88–S92
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Pickett C K, Regensteiner J G, Woodard W D, Hagerman D D, Weil J V, Moore L G. Progestin and estrogen reduce sleep-disordered breathing in postmenopausal women. J Appl Physiol 1989; 66: 1656–1661
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Purdie D, Empson J, Crichton C, MacDonald L. Hormone replacement therapy, sleep quality and psychological wellbeing. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1995; 102: 735–739
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Young T, Rabago D, Zgierska A, Austin D, Finn L. Objective and subjective sleep quality in premenopausal, perimenopausal, and postmenopausal women in the Wisconsin sleep cohort study. Sleep 2003; 26: 667–672
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kalleinen N, Polo O, Himanen S-L, Joutsen A, Urrila A, Polo-Kantola P. Sleep deprivation and hormone therapy in postmenopausal women. Sleep Med 2006; 7: 436–447
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Freedman R R, Roehrs T A. Lack of sleep disturbance from menopausal hot flashes. Fertil Steril 2004; 82: 138–144
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative investigators. Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2002; 288: 321–333
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar