BACKGROUND Early natural menopause has been postulated to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE To examine the relation of age at natural menopause with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke in the Nurses' Health Study. METHODS Analysis was restricted to 35 616 naturally postmenopausal women who never used estrogen replacement therapy and with no diagnosed cardiov...

Abstrak: Gejala Vasomotor Monopause. Menopause adalah berhentinya haid secara permanen setelah didahului oleh amenorea selama minimal satu tahun beserta gejala pada masa transisinya. Usia menopause wanita dapat terjadi usia 45-50 namun beberapa keadaan lebih awal atau terlambat. dini yang kurang dari 40 tahun. Masa transisi dan proses masih menjadi mengkhawatirkan bagi kaum baik perubahan fisik...

conclusions spiritual intervention effectively could reduce the severity of postmenopausal depression. considering the high prevalence of depression in postmenopausal women and the effectiveness, simplicity, and affordability of spiritual intervention, using such interventions in postmenopausal women is recommended. patients and methods a randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on po...

this research is a cross sectional study conducted to survey of young women knowledge about menopause and prevention of its complication in kerman healthy centers. a questionnaire including 36 three optional items prepared by researcher and given to subject via reference to healthy centers. result show that most subjects had not favorable knowledge about menopause and prevention of its complica...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the mood symptom experience of women with bipolar disorder during the menopausal transition (MT). Yet times of rapid hormonal decline, such as the postpartum, are associated with increased risk of severe mood episodes in bipolar disorder, and the MT is a time of increased risk for unipolar depression in women with or without a history of depression. METHODS En...

BACKGROUND As in many advanced societies, the age at first birth and the rate of post-menopausal pregnancies in Israel are constantly increasing. Since Israeli university students are the most likely population to postpone parenthood, this study aims at evaluating their awareness of: (i) women's age-related fertility decline; (ii) age-dependent success rates of IVF technology and (iii) medical ...

BACKGROUND Although the prevalence of hypertension is higher in postmenopausal women than in premenopausal women, little is known about changes in blood pressure (BP) during the menopausal transition. We evaluated BP according to the menopausal transition and associated factors in healthy Korean women. METHODS This cross-sectional study involved 2037 women aged 44 to 56 years who presented at...

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing of menopause affects long-term disease risk, little is known about factors that affect this timing. In the present 1995--1997 cross-sectional study, the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, the relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to age at natural menopause was examined in seven US...