Introduction: Menopause can have negative effects on the quality of life of postmenopausal women.  The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life of post-menopausal women in Yazd City, Iran. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 250 postmenopausal women over 50 years of age in Yazd. The standard SF-36 quality of life questionnaire was used to ...

Introduction: Menopause is one of the most critical stages of women's lives and is a physiological event that occurs in middle age women between 40-59 years which results in physical, mental and social wellbeing and influences their quality of life. Paying attention to postmenopausal women’s quality of life can guarantee health for more than a third of their lifetime Objective: This stud...

Low levels of endogenous estrogens in postmenopausal women lead to several clinical problems. Some of these problems can be resolved by estrogen replacement therapy. The role of estrogen therapy in increasing the risk of breast cancer has not been well known yet. So, it was decided to study this controversial issue. In this study, 122 postmenopausal women, ranging in age from 46 to 61 years, we...

Aims: Sexual dysfunction is the common problem in menopause, which can be affected by demographic factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the demographic factors affecting sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women. Instrument & Methods: This cross sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed on 315 postmenopausal women referred to health care centers in Hamadan in 2018 who wer...

 Nowadays, parallel to the use of modern technology and various approaches in sanitation and medicine, life expectancy has raised dramatically. So, postmenopausal women can live longer, considering that, the osteoporosis is one of the menopausal complaints.   To determine the correlation between Hubble bubble smoking and bone mineral density of postmenopausal women we conducted a retrospective ...

Abstract Background: Most animal studies have shown that trans-10 and cis-12 isomers of Conjugated linoleic Acid, (CLA) tend to increase insulin resistance. But the effect of equal isomers of CLA (50:50 ratios of cis-9, trans-11: trans-10, cis-12 isomers) on lipid profiles, glucose, and insulin resistance and sensitivity in postmenopausal women is not clear. Methods: In the present study, ...