Delusional disorder is a difficult-to-treat clinical condition with health needs that are often undertreated. Although individuals delusional may be high functioning in daily life, they suffer from serious complaints sex-specific. The main aim of this narrative review to address these sex-specific and find ways integrating their management into service programs. Age an important issue. most fir...

OBJECTIVE To study attitudes toward menopause in women with or at risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) aged 35 to 60 in New York City, NY, USA. DESIGN Data were obtained at the baseline interview in a cohort study of menopause. Of 502 participating women, 92 were postmenopausal and 162 were perimenopausal. RESULTS Overall, 37.5% of women had a relatively favorable attitude toward meno...

Urinary incontinence impacts 15 to 35% of the adult ambulatory population. Men after the removal of the prostate for cancer can experience incontinence for several weeks to years after the surgery. Women experience incontinence related to many factors including childbirth, menopause and surgery. It is important that incontinence be treated since it impacts not only the physiological, but also t...

Background: Significant changes in scalp, facial and body hair occur after the menopause. These can have a significant negative impact on self-esteem and are also potential markers of endocrine or metabolic diseases. Knowledge of postmenopausal hair changes is important for clinicians to distinguish between normal physiological change and those that require further medical investigation. Object...

OBJECTIVES Women reaching menopause must make a controversial decision about whether to use hormone therapy (HT). The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was the organizing framework. The objectives were to determine if (1) influence of different TPB constructs varied with stage of menopause and HT use, (2) women with diabetes were influenced in significantly different ways from women without, (3...

Moron et al.: Genome Medicine 2009, 1:76 Abstract The age at natural menopause shows great variability. It has been proposed that early age at menopause is a risk factor for osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, whereas later age at menopause is a risk factor for breast cancer. In addition, it is thought that the genetic factors accounting for the genetic variability in age at menopause coul...

results: the only significant difference was the older age of the malignant group vs. benign group (p = 0.001) regarding demographic findings. as concerns the clinical symptoms, presence of abdominal discomfort in pre-diagnosis period was the only significant parameter in malignant group (p = 0.001). additionally, data analysis of patients as a total group showed that specificity (96.4%), posit...

Sir-In his viewpoint, Hugh TunstallPedoe (May 9, p 1425)’ reinvents a paradox about menopause and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) that has been known for 30 years.’ He concludes that menopause is not a risk factor for CHD, on the basis of the observation that a semilogarithmic plot of CHD mortality rates by age does not show an increased acceleration in women after the age of . 50. We beli...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in sleep between women of early and late post-menopause. STUDY DESIGN Thirty post-menopausal women who came to the climacteric service of their own volition were selected. Fourteen were in early post-menopause (less than 5 years after menopause), and sixteen were in late post-menopause (more than 5 years since menopause). None of...

Disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis (DPL) is a rare disorder characterized by the presence of multifocal nodules and tumors composed of proliferating smooth muscle tissue, spread throughout the peritoneum. Estrogens and progesterone are considered to be the main factors initiating the formation of disseminated leiomyomatosis. Disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis is often asymptomatic, and ...