Background: Published epidemiological evidence of the association between circulating lipids and lipoproteins and breast cancer (BC) in premenopausal and/or postmenopausal women remains controversial. A metaanalysis was therefore designed to estimate a more accurate association. Methods: Systematic literature retrieval was performed on the databases of Web of Science, PubMed and Cochrane librar...

BACKGROUND Obesity, physical inactivity, and altered estrogen levels play an important role in contributing to disease risk profile and autonomic dysfunction in healthy postmenopausal women. This study was conducted to test the correlation between autonomic dysfunction and dyslipidemia in healthy postmenopausal women. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was carried out on sixty healthy postmenop...

BACKGROUND Serum ferritin levels increase in postmenopausal women, and they are reported to be linked to major health problems. Here, we investigated the association between serum ferritin levels and insulin resistance (IR) in postmenopausal women. METHODS A total of 6632 healthy Korean women (4357 premenopausal and 2275 postmenopausal) who participated in the Korean National Health and Nutri...

Age Related Changes in Indices of Bone Metabolism and Oxidative Stress Postmenopausal Women Southern Nigeria

It has been generally accepted that high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) level decreases with menopause in women. However, recent reports show different results. There is very little data concerning perimenopausal women. To verify these findings, lipids and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels were compared among pre-, peri- and postmenopausal women of similar mean ages. Postmenopausal women h...

background: we aimed to define and compare the risk factors of spinal and femoral osteoporosis in postmenopausal iranian women. method: it was a multicentre based study carried out in two stages during 2002 to 2005 among post menopausal women in tehran. in first stage case group included 140 women with diagnosed spinal osteoporosis using dexa method as definition of who and controls were 167 wo...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to consider the effect of eight weeks aerobic training on pth, albumin, calcium, alkaline phosphatesand estrogen levels in postmenopausal women. methods & materials: 22 postmenopause women, 55-70 years, of jahandidegan center in tehran were selected and randomly divided into two groups: (experimental (12) and control (10)) .they had aerobic training pro...

background & aim: ovarian torsion is one of the most common causes of emergency surgery in gynecology, with a tendency to occur in postmenopausal women. the aim of this study was to provide information concerning the clinical presentations, surgical management, pathological findings and risk of malignancy in postmenopausal women with ovarian torsion. methods:in this cross-sectional study, the r...

In this paper we argue that two important causes of welfare losses in oligopolistic markets have been neglected. We show that in models where location is endogenous, welfare losses arising from wrong locations or from lack of market coverage may be substantial despite firms competing in prices. In contrast, welfare losses arising from quality choice are modest but they might vary discontinuousl...