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Menopause

General Information

NEWS:

Menopause Symptoms Start in Brain?

ARTICLES:

Manage your menopause

Menopause And Perimenopause

Menopause: Are You Pre, Peri Or Post?

NCI-Fever, Sweats, and Hot Flashes

Prevention of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women: recommendation statement from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

Screening for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women. What's New from the USPSTF.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A new statistical approach demonstrated menstrual patterns during the menopausal transition did not vary by age at menopause. (J Clin Epidemiol)

A study on urogenital complaints of postmenopausal women aged 50 and over. (Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2005)

Age at natural menopause and cognition. (Maturitas)

Age at natural menopause in Iran. (Maturitas)

An absence of evidence linking perceived memory problems to the menopause. (Br J Gen Pract)

Associations of components of adult height with coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women: the British women's heart and health study. (Heart)

Body Weight Change Since Menopause and Percentage Body Fat Mass are Predictors of Subsequent Bone Mineral Density Change of the Proximal Femur in Women Aged 75 Years and Older: Results of a 5 Year Prospective Study. (Calcif Tissue Int)

Bone density-related predictors of blood lead level among peri- and postmenopausal women in the United States: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994 (Am J Epidemiol)

Bone health and aging: implications for menopause. (Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am)

[Depression-anxiety and disability in the premenopausal and postmenopausal period] (Turk Psikiyatri Derg)

Effect of age on calcium absorption in postmenopausal women (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Effect of exercise on serum estrogens in postmenopausal women: a 12-month randomized clinical trial. (Cancer Res)

Effect of supplementation of calcium and Vitamin D on bone mineral density and bone mineral content in peri- and post-menopause women; A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. (Pharmacol Res)

Effects of age, menopause, and comorbidities on neurological function of the female genitalia. (Int J Impot Res)

Effects of aging and postmenopausal hypoestrogenism on skin elasticity and bone mineral density in Japanese women. (Endocr J)

Effects of hypocaloric diet and exercise training on inflammation and adipocyte lipolysis in obese postmenopausal women. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab)

Epidemiology of postmenopausal hypertension. (Int J Clin Pract Suppl)

Frequent intentional weight loss is associated with lower natural killer cell cytotoxicity in postmenopausal women: possible long-term immune effects. (J Am Diet Assoc)

Genital vascular responsiveness and sexual feelings in midlife women: psychophysiologic, brain, and genital imaging studies. (Menopause)

Hormones and Menopausal Status as Predictors of Depression in Women in Transition to Menopause (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

Hot flashes and sleep in women. (Sleep Med Rev)

Lack of sleep disturbance from menopausal hot flashes. (Fertil Steril)

Low sexual desire in midlife and older women: personality factors, psychosocial development, present sexuality. (Menopause)

Managing women with post-menopausal bleeding. (Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol)

Menopausal women: perceiving continuous power through the experience of regular exercise. (J Clin Nurs)

Menopause and hypothalamic-pituitary sensitivity to estrogen. (JAMA)

Menopause transition: Annual changes in serum hormonal patterns over the menstrual cycle in women during a nine-year period prior to menopause. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab)

Menorrhagia and abnormal bleeding before the menopause. (Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol)

Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: clinical similarities and differences. (Menopause)

Panic disorder in menopause: a case control study. (Maturitas)

Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Health. (BMC Womens Health)

Physical activity and postmenopausal health. (J Br Menopause Soc)

Promotion and prescribing of hormone therapy after report of harm by the Women's Health Initiative. (JAMA)

Relation between climacteric symptoms and ovarian hypofunction in middle-aged and older Japanese women. (Menopause)

Risk factors for incident vertebral fractures in men and women: the Rotterdam Study. (J Bone Miner Res)

[Risk factors for osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in a series of 5,195 women older than 65 years] (Med Clin (Barc))

Risk factors for urinary tract infections in postmenopausal women. (Arch Intern Med)

Self-reported urogenital symptoms in postmenopausal women: Women's Health Initiative. (Maturitas)

Sleep characteristics of menopausal insomnia: A polysomnographic study (Psychiatric and Clinical)

The age at menopause and associated factors at the health center area in Ankara, Turkey. (Maturitas)

The influence of age on symptoms of perimenopause. (J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs)

The use of testosterone after menopause. (J Br Menopause Soc)

Women's sexual functioning, lifestyle, mid-age, and menopause in 12 European countries. (Menopause)

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