Diet During Menopause

Soy consumption during menopause

In developed countries, the life expectancy of women is currently extending more than 30 years beyond the age of menopause. The menopausal transition is often associated with complaints. The conflicting results on the effectivity of phytoestrogens to alleviate menopausal symptoms. This discrepancy in treatment effect may be due to the large interindividual variation in isoflavone bioavailabilit...

Cardiovascular Risk During the Menopause

Although initial experimental data and results of observational studies suggest that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is associated with a reduction in the risk of heart disease, the results for events such as stroke or thromboembolism are less clear. Randomized secondary and primary prevention studies have found that HRT is not protective against the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke or ...

Running Head: LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONS AND MENOPAUSE Effects of Diet and Exercise on Menopause

Hormones and sexuality during transition to menopause.

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between reproductive hormonal dynamics and sexual dysfunction assessed in a cohort of women approaching menopause. METHODS Women in the Penn Ovarian Aging Study were assessed at yearly intervals for 3 years with early follicular hormone measurements (estradiol, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone [LH], sex hormone binding globulin, dehyroepi...

The Importance of “extragenital Symptoms” during Menopause

Focusing more closely on the question of climacteric symptoms and by listing these symptoms in an order of occur­ rence, one finds that nearly 90% of the effects of sexual hormones are of an extragenital nature and that, therefore, the use of the expression “sexual” to describe these hormones is too much of a restriction in terms of a functional analysis (fig 1). The term “extragenital target o...

Depression increases in women during early to late menopause but decreases after menopause.

Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Liu L, et al. Hormones and menopausal status as predictors of depression in women in transition to menopause. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2004;61:62–70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....