Nor are flashes the sole result of estrogen deficiency, since there are many women equally estrogen-deficient who get few or no hot flashes.

Also, women past menopause experience an accelerated loss of bone mass due to a relative estrogen deficiency.

Prescribing Premarin for estrogen deficiency has evolved over the years as a Pavlovian response without any thought to individual treatment.

With estrogen deficiency, the osteoclasts live longer and are therefore able to resorb more bone.

In females, the effect of hypogonadism is mediated by estrogen deficiency.

Most patients with Syndrome X are postmenopausal women and estrogen deficiency has been therefore proposed as a pathogenic factor in female patients.

Congenital estrogen deficiency is a genetic condition by which the body is unable to produce or use estrogens.

Until these recent studies overturned the theory, we have blamed all the diseases of aging, from Alzheimer's to incontinence, on "estrogen deficiency."

Congenital estrogen deficiency can also be caused by a defect in the aromatizing enzyme.