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...

As the Australian population ages, significantly more women are entering the postmenopausal stage of the climacteric, yet research focusing on the prevalence of depressive symptoms in this stage of ovarian ageing is scarce. This review will examine the information provided by studies that have a cohort with data of adequate duration to explore depressive symptom prevalence in the early and late...

Interest in the years of reproductive changes for women with epilepsy (WWE), specifically perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause has been emerging in the epilepsy community. This article discusses evidence for changes in seizure frequency during perimenopause and postmenopause. Further, a catamenial epilepsy pattern during the reproductive years may be a hallmark for the observed seizure fr...

OBJECTIVES No longitudinal studies have examined how iron measures change over menopause. Our objectives were to examine iron measures in individual women at premenopause and at postmenopause and, secondarily, to determine if any changes contributed to insulin resistance. METHODS In a subset of participants (n=70) in a longitudinal study of menopause, we measured ferritin, transferrin, and so...

Tujuan: Mengetahui profil penderita kanker endometrium. Metode: Penelitian metode deskriptif dengan menggunakan data sekunder. Kriteria inklusi penelitian yaitu pasien diagnosis endometrium dilihat berdasarkan hasil histopatologi. Hasil: Distribusi mayoritas berusia >50 tahun (62,0%), berasal dari Kota/Kabupaten Bandung (32,5%), memiliki indeks massa tubuh 18,5-22,9 kg/m2 (27,0%), multipara ...

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 designed to assess nutritional and biochemical factor of magnesium in postmenopausal osteoporotic women. methods & materials: the population of this analytical cross- sectional study, was 60 postmenopausal osteoporotic women ,referred to rheumateology clinic of tabriz. nutritional intake was determined by 3 day food recall and food frequency questionnaire، individual ...