Psychologic Distress and Natural Menopause: A Multiethnic Community Study

Re: "Predictors of the timing of natural menopause in the multiethnic cohort study".

In the article recently published by Henderson et al. (1) from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, the authors reported significant race/ethnicity-specific hazard ratios for the timing of menopause. Natural menopause occurred earlier among Latinas and later among Japanese-American women relative to non-Latina whites. The authors further emphasized that these relations are suggestive of a heritable co...

Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women.

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing of menopause affects long-term disease risk, little is known about factors that affect this timing. In the present 1995--1997 cross-sectional study, the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, the relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to age at natural menopause was examined in seven US...

Screening for psychologic distress in ambulatory cancer patients.

BACKGROUND Based on evidence that psychologic distress often goes unrecognized although it is common among cancer patients, clinical practice guidelines recommend routine screening for distress. For this study, the authors sought to determine whether the single-item Distress Thermometer (DT) compared favorably with longer measures currently used to screen for distress. METHODS Patients (n = 3...

Natural Therapy for Menopause

There are nearly 20 million women in the United States experiencing menopause at present. It is estimated this number will grow to 60 million by the year 2010.(1) Menopausal women are faced with a variety of symptoms and the difficult decision of whether to undergo Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with its unhealthy side-effects. What many woman don’t know is that there are effective alternati...

Psychologic Study of Judicial Opinions