BACKGROUND Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has become more popular as a therapy for symptom relief among menopause-aged women. The aim of this study was to analyze the utilization of TCM for climacteric women in Taiwan. METHODS The study analyzed frequency distributions among 19 379 women aged 45-55 years, recruited from a random-sampled cohort of 200 000 people from the National Health In...

When a patient complains of 'nerves' a doctor is immediately in the business of interpretation and 'reading between the lines'.

Objective To study the prevalence of climacteric, urogenital and sexual symptoms in a population of Brazilian women.

In this paper, we design a classifier based-on topic for food complain documents, and take a series of measures to the implementation process. In order to accomplish feature reduction, the filter method named term filtering for independent topic features is proposed to compress each topic feature vector. We introduce the created food ontology as background knowledge and to expand the semantic o...

Women with severe menopausal symptoms can, at their request, be treated effectively with hormone therapy. Good information about the advantages and disadvantages of hormone therapy should precede this decision. For women with breast cancer or an inherited increased risk of breast cancer and severe, often therapy-related climacteric symptoms, a high degree of reticence is appropriate in relation...

The relationship of respiration and growth of seed, pericarp tissue and whole fruit of snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was studied. The whole fruit exhibited an apparent climacteric type of respiration pattern. This pattern resulted from an increase in CO(2) production by the enlarging seed followed by a rapid decrease in CO(2) evolution by the pericarp tissue, and the pattern was not associ...

The relationship between carbon dioxide evolution and fruit ripening has been investigated widely for some of the deciduous fruits. With the apple and pear, in particular, it has been shown (4, 5) that changes in certain manifestations of maturity are accompanied by a greatly accelerated rate of respiration. Similar observations were made for the banana (2). This rapid increase in carbon dioxid...

The interactive effects of aeration rate, storage temperature, harvest maturity, and storage duration on respiration and ripening of tomato fruits (Lycopersicum esculentum var. Roma) were studied. Slow aeration rate strongly reduced the climacteric but did not affect ripening. Low temperature slowed ripening and reduced respiratory rates, but low temperature did not delay attainment of the clim...

OBJECTIVE The practice of yoga has been proven to have positive effects on reducing insomnia. Studies have also shown its effects on reducing climacteric symptoms. To date, however, no studies that evaluate the effects of yoga on postmenopausal women with a diagnosis of insomnia in a randomized clinical trial have been conducted. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of yoga practice...