The triggers or risk factors for depression do appear to vary across the life course, and the postnatal period and
the period around menopause are times of particular risk of depression among women.
Current guidelines suggest that women only take hormone therapy for a short
period around menopause to alleviate symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats.
Not exact matches
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.
Her
periods had stopped six years before, and she thought the rash might be just part of life after
menopause, like drooping breasts, lines
around her eyes, and most recently the swelling of her belly and the aching in her joints.Unlike the adjacent brown age spots — which she knew were from too many summers in low - cut swimsuits — this was a blo...
Around age 35, most women begin perimenopause, the
period before
menopause when your body starts changing.
Sometimes called «the change,»
menopause is the time,
around age 50, when a woman's ovaries produce fewer hormones and she stops having a monthly
period.
(«Peri» means
around and «
menopause» means cessation of monthly
periods).
Few of us stop to ponder the other huge transitions that happen as we get older: our hormones fluctuate, causing changes in the flow of our
periods, childbirth puts our cycles on hold for months, and
menopause shifts everything
around significantly.