background: considering the physical, emotional and psychological complications of early or delayed menopause on women`s life, it is necessary to determine associated factors of menopause age. this study designed to determine menopausal age and associated factors in women of gorgan, i.e. the capital of golestan province in the north-east of iran.   methods: in this cross-sectional study, 804 me...

a survey on women’s knowledge about menopause in rasht sh seyam msc received: 23 july, 2009 accepted: 17 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: menopause is a natural period of life that means permanent cessation of menstruation and end of fertility period. menopause is an important phenomenon in any women’s life. the aim of this research was to determine the knowledge of women about signs and s...

to describe the relationship of blood lead levels (bll) and blood, δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase(alad) activity and haematocrit value(hct) to menopause , were examined 17 pre-or perimenopausal (prem) and 17 postmenopausal women (posm)from prishtina city, the capital ofrepublic kosovo. the mean age of the prem women was 28.8 years (21-46), with a mean blood lead level of 1.2 μg/dl (sd=0.583 ...

OBJECTIVE Findings on the effect of menopause or age at menopause on the presence of hyperglycemia are controversial, and why women after menopause have a higher probability of having hyperglycemia than men in the same age range remains unknown. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We reviewed data on 29,189 men, 6,308 premenopausal women, and 4,570 postmenopausal women in Japan. Odds ratios (ORs) for...

background : with regard to an increase in the life expectancy for women and the consistency of the menopause age, a significant portion of women's age is passed after the menopause. menopause is considered as a critical and sensitive period due to the changes and the disorders that are involved in it. vasomotor symptoms, sleep disorders and psycho-mental changes are among the most prevalent sy...

UNLABELLED Background : Evidences shows that menopause affects women's health, but women's knowledge of proper care and maintenance is insufficient. OBJECTIVE To determine knowledge of hormone therapy (HT), reproductive physiology, and menopause in a population of 40-60 year old women. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted through a cluster sampling among 330 women ...

Objective: Sexual myths are common in societies because of the lack formal education about life-long sexuality. While sexual life is affected by many factors, it also affects areas life. Attitudes and symptoms experienced during menopause, which one basic periods women, unique can be factors. To examine relationship between menopausal attitudes to menopause postmenopausal women. 
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The aim of the study was the assessment of the dependencies between a woman's menopausal status and adiposity, lipid profile and metabolic syndrome occurrence, as well as finding out whether the correlations between the socio-demographic profile and lifestyle elements and adiposity, lipid profile and the risk of MetS are the same before and after menopause. A cross-sectional study was carried o...

Menopause is the process of permanent cessation of menstrual periods in women.1 For the majority of women, menopause begins in the early fifties, although some women experience menopause earlier due to surgery, chemotherapy or other causes. The onset of menopause is usually heralded by the slowing and eventual cessation of menses, as well as other physical and mental symptoms which vary widely ...

INTRODUCTION Studies of menopausal women are providing increasing evidence of the reasons for complementary and alternative medications (CAM) use during menopause, the types of CAM used and the prevalence of use; however, further insight into the experiences of women using CAM during menopause is required. The aim of this study was to put CAM use during menopause into context by identifying and...