Clinical data have been equivocal and controversial as to the benefits to the brain and cognition of hormone therapy (HT) in postmenopausal women. Recent reevaluation of the role of estrogens proposed that HT may effectively prevent the deleterious effects of aging on cognition, and reduces the risks of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, if initiated early at the beginning of menopause. Y...

Objective—We examined the association between breastfeeding and visceral adiposity postmenopause. Design and Methods—Participants were community-dwelling women aged 55–80 from the Caucasian Rancho Bernardo Study, the Filipino Women’s Health Study, and the Health Assessment Study of African-American Women who had visceral adipose tissue (VAT) measurements by computed tomography between 2000–2002...

Despite the well-documented role of calcium in cell metabolism, its role in the development of cardiovascular disease is still under heavy debate. Several studies suggest that calcium supplementation might be associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease, whereas others underline a significant effect on lowering high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia. The purpose of this study was...

AIM The aim of this research was to examine the correlation between lipid profile and bone density in postmenopausal and premenopausal women. MATERIAL AND METHODS This research covered 53 subjects who were in postmenopause and 30 subjects who had regular menstruation, older than 45. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The postmenopausal subjects have lower bone density of the lumbar spine, if triglyceri...

BACKGROUND Studies of postmenopausal breast cancer have reported positive associations with body size and composition but it is uncertain whether these are due to non-adipose, adipose mass, or central adiposity, and whether they are limited to subgroups defined by age or tumor characteristics. METHODS In a prospective cohort study of women ages 27 to 75, body measurements were taken directly;...

OBJECTIVES Midlife women's knowledge, positive attitudes and management toward menopause may improve the quality of peri and post-menopause life. This study was to identify correlations of the knowledge, attitude, symptoms and management toward menopause in middle-aged women. METHODS We used a cross-sectional questionnaire study applying to 231 perimenopausal and menopausal women aged from 40...

this study was conducted to compare the mandibular bone density between postmenopausal women with normal skeletal bone mass density (bmd) and those with low skeletal bmd using digital panoramic radiographs.one hundred fifteen postmenopausal women were divided into normal and osteoporotic/osteopenic groups. digital panoramic radiographs were prepared using digora pct sorodex equipment and promax...

BACKGROUND Menopausal symptoms and sleep difficulty were physiological processes that were affected by genetic and other factors. This study was to investigate the prevalence of menopausal symptoms and sleep quality in menopausal transition (MT) and postmenopause (PM) women in Taiyuan, Shanxi. METHODS A community-based survey of women's menopausal symptoms and sleep quality was conducted betw...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine thyroid hormone (TH) profile in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer (BC). SUBJECTS AND METHODS 12 CaM patients stages I or II, without interventions that could interfere with tumor progression were selected, as well as and a control group with 18 postmenopausal women without CaM. We measured serum anti-thyroperoxidase antibody (TPOAB), t...

Osteoporosis has become global health issue due to the longer life-cycle and increased percentage of older people in population. The great improvement was done in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. By the mechanism of action, drugs for osteoporosis treatment are antiresorptives and osteoanabolics. Teriparatide is an osteoanabolic drug that stimulates bone turnover and building of a n...