Background: To study the clinical presentation and coronary angiographic profile in premenopausal women with acute coronary syndrome 2. To compare with the clinical presentation and coronary angiographic profile in postmenopausal women with acute coronary syndrome Method: 43 Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome admitted in department of cardiology King George Hospital Visakhapatnam , who under...

background and objectives: sarcopenia is explained as age-related reduction in muscle mass and performance. some of the most important risk factors for sarcopenia include age, malnutrition, and sedentary life style. the aim of this study was to investigate the association of food intake and physical activity with body composition, muscle strength and muscle function in post-menopausal women. ma...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated menopausal symptoms, menstrual cycle bleeding characteristics and reproductive hormones for their associations with thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) concentrations in women at the mid-life from five ethnic groups. METHODS This report is from the baseline evaluation of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a community-based multiethnic study of the natur...

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in postmenopausal women light restrictions imposed by Covid-19 pandemic.Methods: This was a single-center cross-sectional study with total 167 patients (post-menopausal :133, pre-menopausal: 24) who were divided into two groups according to age.Result: There significant negative links between serum T4 hormone levels and each calcium ...

Background: Osteoporosis is a chronic disease that contributes substantially to decrease physical activity and decline in the quality of life. Osteoporosis can be diagnosed easily with the use of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) equipment. The aim of this study was to investigate the magnitude of bone loss on proximal femur and lumbar spine LS in pre- and post-menopausal women f...

BACKGROUND Several studies have found that depressed, post-menopausal females may respond differently to antidepressants compared to pre-menopausal females. The atypical antipsychotic lurasidone, whose mechanism of action differs from SSRIs and other standard antidepressants, was shown in a 6-week randomized, flexible-dose, placebo-controlled study (n=209), to be effective in treating major dep...

Post-menopausal women experience variable biological and psychological changes. The effect of reduced levels of estrogen can effect on post-menopausal depression. Estrogen triggers physiological responses by binding to the estrogen receptor (ER). Two subtypes of ER, ERa and ERb are now known. We investigated the significance of ERa and ERb polymorphisms and post-menopasal depression in this stu...

Changes in women's menstrual bleeding patterns precede the onset of menopause. In this paper, the authors identify population subgroups based on menstrual characteristics of the menopausal transition experience. Using the TREMIN data set (1943-1979), the authors apply a bayesian change-point model with 8 parameters for each woman that summarize change in menstrual bleeding patterns during the m...

Ovarian cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a rare finding reported in autopsy studies of immunocompromised patients. We report the first case of bilateral CMV oophoritis diagnosed in surgical resection specimens from a 63-year-old woman with metastatic brain lesions undergoing whole brain radiation and steroid treatment. The ovarian involvement of CMV infection was an incidental finding during ...