OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to investigate stages of reproductive aging as an associated factor for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) among women in a representative sample of Sao Paulo, Brazil. METHODS Four hundred seven women underwent clinical evaluation, polysomnography, and biochemical analysis. Stages of reproductive aging were defined as premenopause, early postmenopause, a...

Objective: To describe sexual function of women in the late postmenopause and to investigate change from early postmenopause. Methods: Cross sectional analysis of 2012/13 and longitudinal analysis from 2002/04 of the population based, Australian cohort of the Women’s Healthy Aging Project (WHAP), applying validated instruments: Short Personal Experience Questionnaire (SPEQ), Female Sexual Distr...

INTRODUCTION There is a paucity of longitudinal studies assessing sexual function of women in the late postmenopause. AIM This study aims to describe sexual function of women in the late postmenopause and to investigate change from early postmenopause. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of 2012/13 and longitudinal analysis from 2002/04 of the population based, Australian cohort of the Women's...

The relationship between mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and hematocrit (Hct) was studied in pre- and postmenopause women in the city of Durango, Mexico. Premenopause women show a negative trend between parameters that is not statistically significant. MAP and Hct are directly related in postmenopause women (p < 0.01). It is proposed that that this MAP/Hct relationship is in part due to diff...

background: myocardial infarctions at different locations have been related to different sets of risk factors. this study was designed to examine the association between cardiovascular risk factors and specific coronary artery calcification (cac). methods: the study population comprised 573 postmenopausal women selected from a population-based cohort study. established vascular risk factors wer...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to provide a reference base for suggesting proper guidelines for the health of the people by analyzing perception and intake pattern on health functional foods and by identifying needs in pre- and postmenopausal women. METHODS We conducted a self-administered survey in women admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a university hospital be...

background: an electrocardiogram (ecg) can provide information on subclinical myocardial damage. the presence, and more importantly, the quantity of coronary artery calcification (cac), relates well with the overall severity of the atherosclerotic process. a strong relation has been demonstrated between coronary calcium burden and the incidence of myocardial infarction, a relation independent o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to describe the changes in cardiovascular risk factors during the perimenopausal and early postmenopausal years and correlate those changes in risk factors with carotid intimal-medial thickness (IMT) and plaque index measured 5 to 8 years after menopause. METHODS Participants were women (n=372) from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, enrol...

this study was conducted to compare the mandibular bone density between postmenopausal women with normal skeletal bone mass density (bmd) and those with low skeletal bmd using digital panoramic radiographs.one hundred fifteen postmenopausal women were divided into normal and osteoporotic/osteopenic groups. digital panoramic radiographs were prepared using digora pct sorodex equipment and promax...

BACKGROUND Middle-aged women experience various menopausal symptoms during the menopause. These symptoms can affect their quality of life and health. Several epidemiological studies reported that obesity associates with menopausal symptoms. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the associations between obesity and multiple menopausal symptoms at different stages of menopause in m...