Menopause has an important influence on risk of breast cancer. We have examined longitudinally the effect of menopause on mammographic densities, a strong risk factor for the disease, in women in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study. Baseline mammograms from women in the National Breast Screening Study, who were premenopausal at entry and had undergone menopause after entry, were compar...

OBJECTIVE Menopause is the consequence of exhaustion of the ovarian follicular pool. AMH, an indirect hormonal marker of ovarian reserve, has been recently proposed as a predictor for age at menopause. Since BMI and smoking status are relevant independent factors associated with age at menopause we evaluated whether a model including all three of these variables could improve AMH-based predicti...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated whether time since menopause influences the acute and chronic effect of Estradiol (E) on vascular endothelial function. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) in 134 postmenopausal women (PMW) before and after acute and chronic E administration. At baseline FMD was inversely associated to time from menopause (r=-0.67, P<0.001) and age (r=-0.43, P<...

BACKGROUND The quality of life of the increasing ageing population is becoming an important issue in India. There are very little data on the effect of menopause on women, especially from rural India. METHOD A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on perceptions regarding menopause, prevalence of menopausal symptoms and association of family environmental factors with menopausa...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE The features of menopause have always been assumed to occur only to a minor degree of significance in Nigerian women. Perceptions of menopausal symptoms are greatly influenced by social, cultural and economic settings and may influence the mode of treatment for menopausal symptoms. The aim of this study was to determine the features and perceptions of natural menopause amon...

Background Reducing disease risk for women after menopause is global health issue. A major portion of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) consisted of two clinical trials involving 161,809 post-menopausal women aged 50-79 that tested the effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on reducing cardiovascular disease and other secondary outcomes. Previous analyses of the data reveal that HRT shou...

Abstract&#x0D; Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation due to loss ovarian activity. Symptoms that appear are sleep disturbances, emergence psychological signs in form memory loss, emotional changes and depression. The influencing factor knowledge. most effective increase knowledge through counseling conducted health cadres, where level cadres about menopause will help mothers prep...

With its associated hot flashes, mood swings, and insomnia, menopause can be a challenging period in a woman’s life. But as much as it marks the end of her childbearing years, menopause— and more specifically the age at which it occurs—can also reflect on a woman’s overall health. An older age at menopause typically reflects good health overall, whereas early menopause— generally defined as occ...

Menopause remains an evolutionary puzzle, as humans are unique among primates in having a long post-fertile lifespan. One model proposes that intergenerational conflict in patrilocal populations favours female reproductive cessation. This model predicts that women should experience menopause earlier in groups with an evolutionary history of patrilocality compared with matrilocal groups. Using d...