BACKGROUND Women with breast cancer frequently undergo menopause following adjuvant chemotherapy. Here, we investigated whether they have more severe symptoms than women undergoing natural menopause. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-one women who had undergone menopause as a result of chemotherapy and 57 healthy women who had undergone recent natural menopause were evaluated on two occasions 1 year...

As the population ages, more individuals with autoimmune diseases are experiencing reproductive senescence. Understanding the impact of menopause and age-related androgen decline on disease onset and course, as well as the potential for hormonal interventions, is critically important. In men, lupus erythematosis (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and multiple sclerosis (MS) are associated with l...

BACKGROUND Relationship between premature menopause and presence, severity and life-threatening events of coronary artery disease (CAD) has been suggested in recent observations. The present study tried to assess relationship between age of menopause and severity of CAD in a sample of women with suspected CAD. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, we included 189 consecutive women with suspecte...

BACKGROUND While bio-medically, menopause could be treated as an illness, from a psychosocial and cultural perspective it could be seen as a "natural" process without requiring medication unless severe symptoms are present.Our objective is to explore the perceptions of Turkish women regarding menopause and Hormone Therapy (HT) to provide health care workers with an insight into the needs and ex...

STUDY QUESTION Is unilateral oophorectomy associated with age at menopause? SUMMARY ANSWER Women who had undergone unilateral oophorectomy entered menopause 1 year earlier than women with two ovaries intact. WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN There is substantial variation in age at natural menopause. Unilateral oophorectomy implies a significant reduction of the ovarian follicular reserve. Thus, one mi...

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...

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated the association of tobacco use with infertility and age at natural menopause, yet few have explored secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with these outcomes. This study offers a comprehensive, quantified secondary data analysis of these issues using the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI OS). PURPOSE This study examines associations betw...