INTRODUCTION This study examines the difference in the efficacy and tolerability of an antidepressant inhibiting the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin--IRNS--on climacteric patients diagnosed of major depressive disorder, comparing the therapeutic response between perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients. METHODS Observational, prospective, open-label, multicenter study 24 weeks stud...

Reports of a “male menopause” have been appearing in the literature since the 1930s [1] [2] . The Heller and Myers paper of 1944 was seen by some as a ’landmark paper where symptoms of age-related low testosterone were shown to be reversed by testosterone replacement, but not by placebo [3] . The “male menopause” has been referred to as the andropause, viropause and the male climacteric [1] [4]...

Phytoestrogens are polyphenol, non-steroidal substances of plant origin, resembling 17β-estradiol in structure. These substances can act as either agonists or antagonists of oestrogen receptors α and β. Phytoestrogens are widely used to alleviate menopausal symptoms, such as hot flushes and night sweats. Most of the currently available products of plant origin registered to soften climacteric s...

Menopause is associated with a considerable variety of physical, psychological and social symptoms that can be treated using cognitive-behavioral techniques. In the present study, 21 women took part in an eight-week group intervention consisting of weekly two-hour sessions to address their slight symptoms related to the climacteric stage of life. The intervention included: psycho education on m...

The present study aims to identify the factors that interfere with approach of nurses in Primary Health Care, relation women climacteric. This is a research qualitative approach, descriptive type, along lines bibliographic review. As result crossing descriptors Sciences (DeCS) and searching main databases (BVS, BDENF, LILACS, Medline, SciELO), it was possible extract, after detailed reading, se...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of standardized soy extract on climacteric symptoms, lipid profiles, bone markers, and serum isoflavone concentration in healthy Taiwanese postmenopausal women. MATERIALS AND METHODS A multicenter, open-labeled, randomized, prospective, comparative study design was used. A total of 130 outpatients who had undergone natural menopause were randomly administe...

Ethylene has long been regarded as the main regulator of ripening in climacteric fruits. The characterization of a few tomato mutants, unable to produce climacteric ethylene and to ripen their fruits even following treatments with exogenous ethylene, has shown that other factors also play an important role in the control of climacteric fruit ripening. In climacteric peach and tomato fruits it h...