BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The age at which menopause naturally occurs may reflect nutritional and environmental circumstances as well as genetic factors. In this study we examined natural menopause as a marker of women's health at the population level in India and in some major States. METHODS Data from the Indian District Level Household Survey (DLHS) carried out during 2007-2008 covering 643,...

Aims: In women's life, menopause is characterized by significant physiological changes often associated with an increase in body mass and obesity-associated sicknesses. Numerous researches described interdependencies of estrogen deficiency, aging, and resting energy expenditure (REE) downfall in the obesity correlated with the menopause. The aim of this study was to determining whether healthy,...

Age at menopause has implications for fertility and risk of hormonally related chronic diseases. Some pesticides disrupt reproductive hormones or are toxic to the ovary, but little is known about the association between pesticide exposure and timing of menopause. Cox proportional hazards modeling was used to examine the association between use of pesticides and age at menopause among 8,038 wome...

PURPOSE To investigate the impact of menopause on the quality of life (QoL) of middle-aged and older women, including their general well-being, voiding-related symptoms, and sexual distress. MATERIALS AND METHODS To assess QoL, we administered a questionnaire that included questions about voiding-related symptoms and female sexual distress and part of the Women's Health Questionnaire. The sel...

Menopause is a biopsychosocial phenomenon that encompasses woman's life transition from fertile to infertile. Although menopause can cause extremely unpleasant physical symptoms, there evidence women in Asian cultures have low rate of reported menopausal symptoms. Women's experiences, perspectives, and responses menopause, which affects women's daily lives well-being, may differ across societie...

Background. Menopause is the expected end of reproductive life. Having a positive attitude towards it has been shown to result in a positive experience, while a negative attitude is associated with negative experiences and symptoms. Traditionally, women often abstain from sex after menopause. The study aimed to determine the level of awareness and perceptions about the menopause and sex in peri...

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated the association of tobacco use with infertility and age at natural menopause, yet few have explored secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with these outcomes. This study offers a comprehensive, quantified secondary data analysis of these issues using the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI OS). PURPOSE This study examines associations betw...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse the relationship between menstrual and reproductive factors and the risk of low bone mineral density (BMD). DESIGN This was a population based screening programme carried out between 1991 and 1993 among 1373 perimenopausal women in northern Italy by means of dual photon absorptiometry at the lumbar spine. MAIN RESULTS BMD was strongly related to the age at menopau...

Background The twenty-one million women reaching menopause in the next ten years can cope with menopause effects in a variety ofnew ways. Today, a growing body of evidence indicates that women may wish to actively participate in choosing health management strategies. Estrogen has been shown to prevent primary heart disease and osteoporosis with additional possible benefits of prevention of Alzh...