OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of sleep continuity disorders in women during menopausal transition, to evaluate the relationship between disturbances of sleep continuity and the severity of menopausal syndrome and the occurrence of various symptoms of this syndrome, as well as to evaluate the association between the presence of sleep disturbances and serum ...

As a result of estrogen deficiency in menopausal women various health problems occur. Disorders of central nervous system such as stroke and dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease are frequently encountered in menopausal women. Estrogen plays an important role in the maintenance of the dense network of neural fibres connecting one nerve cell to another, and in the synaptic activity facilitating co...

BACKGROUND Post-menopausal women may be at particular risk of developing cardiovascu-lar disease due to metabolic changes occurring at menopause. The present study aimed to assess the 10-year cardiovascular risk (CVR) among a group of post-menopausal women and to deter-mine associated factors. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted among post-menopausal women in Yaoundé, Cameroon....

Severity and duration of menopausal symptoms varies markedly. Eight out of ten women experience symptoms and on average these last four years, with one in ten women experiencing symptoms for up to 12 years. A recent study found that women whose vasomotor symptoms started before the menopause suffered longest, median 11.8 years. Women whose hot flushes and night sweats started after the menopaus...

1. The time-course of the age-related decline in specific muscle force (maximum voluntary force per cross-sectional area) in men and women was determined by measuring the maximum voluntary force and cross-sectional area of the adductor pollicis muscle in 273 subjects aged 17-90 years (176 men, 30 premenopausal women and 67 peri- or post-menopausal women who were not receiving hormone replacemen...

BACKGROUND The special extract ERr 731 from the roots of rhapontic rhubarb has been in widespread use in Germany since 1993, and the current regulations have required an evaluation of its risk:benefit ratio in daily use. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the efficacy and tolerability ofERr 731 in menopausal women in everyday practice. DESIGN Three hundred sixty-three menopausal women with menopausal...

BACKGROUND Higher exposure to certain phthalates is associated with a diabetes and insulin resistance, with sex differences seen. Yet, little is known about the association between phthalates and metabolic syndrome (MetS), particularly with consideration for differences by sex and menopausal status. METHODS We analyzed data from 2719 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examinati...

Background and Aim: Postmenopausal women suffer from sleep problems due to night sweats and serotonin deficiency caused by estrogen deficiency. Considering that the cause of different reactions to menopausal symptoms including sleep disturbances has not been recognized, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality characteristics and sleep quality in postmenopausal women...