T he merit of Sharanya Shre et al. work entitled, " Severity and clustering of menopausal symptoms among obese and nonobese postmenopausal women in India, " [1] recently published in this journal brings reflections on the theme. The study shows that obesity does not affect the severity of menopausal symptoms in postmenopausal women in India. The article in question has great potential impact, a...

Objectives: to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of Vitae-Melatonin in complex treatment vegetative disorders postmenopausal women.Materials and methods. The 64 women who complained were included our prospective study. Patients divided into groups. first group consisted 31 prescribed a herbal preparation Cimicifuga racemosa extract – 30 mg/day for 3 months. second 33 patients received additio...

Women tend to gain weight with age, especially fat mass which shows also regional changes. A cross-sectional study was done on 213 Czech women with the conclusion that there is a progressive weight increase up to the menopause, an increase in absolute and relative fat contribution and fat centralisation up to the postmenopause and these changes seemed to occur even before the weight increase oc...

PURPOSE to generate and validate a proper questionnaire to evaluate the sexual function in post-menopause women. METHODS 251 women, within 2 to 15 years postmenopause, were included in the study. Questionnaire's reproductibility/reliability was evaluated by Pearson, intraclass and Lin's correlation coefficients. The internal consistance was examined by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Classi...