Also, if you experience a bad bout of
health at the menopause, well, do not be surprised your man leaves you (thanks to my profession, I can tell you that many men leave for that reason), because actually he also has other things to do than mothering you with this problem, same if you get seriously sick.
Not exact matches
«Many women suffer from insomnia during
menopause, and it's good to know that yoga may help them,» said lead author Katherine Newton, PhD, a senior investigator
at Group
Health Research Institute.
«A generation of women has missed out on effective treatment because of misinformation,» says JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American
Menopause Society and a gynecologist who specializes in menopause at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlot
Menopause Society and a gynecologist who specializes in
menopause at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlot
menopause at the University of Virginia
Health System in Charlottesville.
Women who begin
menopause before age 46 or after 55 have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of more than 124,000 women enrolled in the Women's
Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed
at preventing disease in postmenopausal women.
Researchers examined 28,516 postmenopausal women without cardiovascular disease from the Women's
Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births, age
at first pregnancy lasting
at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to
menopause) with incident heart failure.
The women completed extensive
health questionnaires, including questions about reproductive history, age
at first period and age of
menopause.
It provides an opportunity for clinicians to include women's reproductive history alongside other lifestyle factors, such as smoking, when assessing the risk of early
menopause, and enables them to focus
health messages more effectively both earlier in life and for women
at most risk.
The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's
Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early
menopause.
«For decades, scientists have disagreed over whether
menopause causes aging or aging causes
menopause,» said Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics
at the David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA and UCLA Fielding School of Public
Health, and a senior author on both studies.
He continued: «Having undertaken this research, we have come to the conclusion that information and support relating to
menopause at work should ideally be part of a broader line management training programme about
health and well - being in later life.
The findings
at the Fred Hutch - led Women's
Health Initiative resulted in a change in
menopause treatment that means 20,000 fewer women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
«But as long as a woman is in reasonably good
health and does nt smoke, she can take the Pill for as long as she likes — even in her 40s and up until
menopause,» says Mary Jane Minkin, MD, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology
at Yale School of Medicine.
Beginning or maintaining an exercise program
at this age not only helps mitigate the damage of hormonal change but also helps decrease many of the associated
health impacts of
menopause.
If you feel that your
health care provider may not be the right fit for you, I encourage you to find a
menopause specialist at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS)'s official website, where you can search for a NAMS - certified menopause practitioner (NCMP) in y
menopause specialist
at the North American
Menopause Society (NAMS)'s official website, where you can search for a NAMS - certified menopause practitioner (NCMP) in y
Menopause Society (NAMS)'s official website, where you can search for a NAMS - certified
menopause practitioner (NCMP) in y
menopause practitioner (NCMP) in your area.
Istockphoto From
Health magazineHigh - tech medicine is making it possible to get pregnant
at 40, 50, even past
menopause.
But popping a pill isn't enough to fight the decline, stresses JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, executive director of the North American
Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology
at the University of Virginia
Health System.
In this episode Dr Andrea (aka our resident hormone whisperer) and Dr Ashleigh discuss the hormonal changes that happen
at midlife, the incredible possibilities that await women during
menopause, hormone replacement therapy and the Women's
Health Initiative and as always the best holistic solutions for managing menopausal symptoms!
However, it is important to look
at the full picture and take a holistic approach when determining the cause of weight gain during
menopause, as lifestyle, mental
health and genetic factors could all play a role.
According to JoAnn E Manson, MD, DrPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital
at Harvard Medical School, and Andrew M. Kauitz, MD, of the University of Florida College of Medicine, «Most primary care residency programs in the United States don't provide adequate education in women's
health in general or in
menopause management in particular.»
Another cause is complicated and a bit controversial, says Stephanie S. Faubion, MD, director of the Office of Women's
Health at Mayo Clinic and author of Mayo Clinic — The
Menopause Solution.