Sentences with phrase «women at menopause»

Levels of testosterone and its precursor, DHEA, decrease in women at menopause, and are often particularly low in women who have a «surgical menopause» or total hysterectomy with removal of the ovaries.

The study was carried out in Tehran, Iran, where in comparison to the US, the average age is younger of women at menopause: 48.2 years in Iran as opposed to 51 years in the US.

«Also, women at menopause and post menopause deposit more fat in the abdominal area, so it's actually a hormonal physiological change which occurs with the reduction of oestrogen.

The same might also be true of healthy women at menopause.

Not exact matches

Sure, women and men going through menopause and andropause may experience the odd gap, but there is absolutely no reason why our elders should be considered less valuable than their younger counterparts or feel they have to be shown the retirement door at age 65.

Men don't experience vaginal atrophy, permanent loss of libido, mood swings and stress incontinence the way women do at menopause.

Based on their findings, however, the researchers believe that women who carry either BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 should be aware that they may be at higher risk of infertility and early menopause, and consider having children sooner.

See the certified nurse midwives at The Women's Center for well woman care, contraceptive options, menopause care, and treatment of problem gynecologic conditions and diseases.

Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, «abortion» is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause.

It is estimated that 53 percent of menopausal women use at least one type of CAM for the management of such menopause - related symptoms as hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, depression, stiff or painful joints, back pain, headaches, tiredness, vaginal discharge, leaking urine and palpitations.

Somers stands by her book, insisting that she has simply written about multiple options for women who suffer from the symptoms of menopause, and that readers should listen to their own doctors and proceed at their own risk.

Hormone therapy «was always primarily a product to use in women entering menopause,» says Howard Hodis, a physician scientist who focuses on preventive medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

Is it a coincidence that women often undergo the physiological change of menopause at an age when they might have young grandchildren on hand?

«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.

Researchers were finally able to tease out the results that applied to «the young women — and I love saying this — young women 50 to 59 who are most apt to present with symptoms of menopause,» says Cynthia Stuenkel, an internist and endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla.

«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 CharlotMenopause Society and a gynecologist who specializes in menopause at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlotmenopause at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.

Women using hormone replacement therapy to relieve the symptoms of menopause faced a lower risk of death and showed lower levels of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup in the heart's arteries, compared to women not using hormone therapy, according to a single - center study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific SesWomen using hormone replacement therapy to relieve the symptoms of menopause faced a lower risk of death and showed lower levels of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup in the heart's arteries, compared to women not using hormone therapy, according to a single - center study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Seswomen not using hormone therapy, according to a single - center study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.

Short total reproductive duration was associated with an increased risk of heart failure, which was found to be related to an earlier age at menopause and was more pronounced in women who experienced natural, rather than surgical, menopause.

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 wWomen 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 wwomen enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed at preventing disease in postmenopausal wWomen's Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed at preventing disease in postmenopausal womenwomen.

«Women who start menopause before or after that window should be aware that they are at higher risk, and should be especially vigilant about reducing obesity, eating a healthy diet and exercising.

Previous studies linked early menopause to an increased risk of diabetes, but this study is one of the first to show that later menopause also puts women at higher risk.

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 faiwomen 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 faiWomen'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.

Postmenopausal women who reached menopause at an earlier age or who never gave birth are at a higher risk for heart failure, according to research published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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 menopWomen'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 menopwomen 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 menopwomen for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

Women who had their first menstrual period when they were aged 11 or younger have an increased risk of an early or premature menopause and if they remain childless the risk is increased even more, according to results from the first large scale, multi-national study to investigate the links between age at puberty and menopause and whether or not a woman has had children.

To protect their children, Carpenter suggests «women should avoid eating farmed salmon at all, from the day they are born through menopause.»

For some cancers like breast cancer occurring in younger women before the menopause, there even seemed to be a lower risk at higher BMI.

«Earlier menopause has been reported in women undergoing radioactive iodine treatment, and given the finite number of primordial follicles women start with at birth, radiation injury to germinal cells is not expected to be reversible,» she cautioned.

On average, women enter menopause at around 50 years of age.

In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier signs of menopause — in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average — in white women with certain genetic vaMenopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier signs of menopause — in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average — in white women with certain genetic vamenopause — in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average — in white women with certain genetic variations.

We already know that smoking causes early menopause in women of all races, but these new results show that if you are a white smoker with these specific genetic variants, your risk of entering menopause at any given time increases dramatically,» said the study's lead author Samantha F. Butts, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn Medicine.

The Swedish study involving 25,474 women is the first to quantify the combined effects of smoking and age at menopause on overall mortality in terms of survival time by investigating the role of smoking as a possible effect modifier.

«The finding from this observational study that women who underwent menopause at a later age and used oral hormone therapy had greater hearing loss was unexpected but should lead to more testing in a randomized, clinical trial,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

Up to 80 percent of women experience menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flashes and night sweats, at some point during the menopause transition, said Rebecca Thurston, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, Pitt School of Medicine.

In this study that followed a large population of Swedish women over 16 years, the difference in median age at death between women with menopause at 40 years and women with menopause at 60 years was 1.3 years.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms, in particular for younger women at the onset of the menopause, suggests a new review published today (19 December) in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG).

When the analysis was restricted to current smokers, the difference in age at death between women with menopause at age 40 years and women with menopause at 60 years increased from 1.3 years to 2.6 years.

Woman go through menopause at different ages, so Marcelle Cedars at the University of California, San Francisco, wondered if the bodies of women who end up experiencing it early may be intrinsically ageing faster that those who experience it later.

The team found that HRT was more effective at this than a placebo, and seemed to have the most effect in women in the early stages of menopause, and those experiencing other life stresses.

A study of 172 women suggests that HRT treatment is more effective than a placebo at preventing symptoms of depression from emerging during early menopause

Prescriptions of compounded hormones aren't systematically tracked the way those for FDA - approved drugs are, so the analysts used two large internet surveys of middle - aged and older US women to gauge how commonly they use approved hormone therapy and compounded hormone therapy at menopause.

From 28 % to 68 % of women using hormones at menopause take compounded, so - called «bioidentical» hormones, but women don't understand the risks of these unapproved, untested treatments, shows an analysis of two large surveys, which was published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopausemenopause take compounded, so - called «bioidentical» hormones, but women don't understand the risks of these unapproved, untested treatments, shows an analysis of two large surveys, which was published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American MenopauseMenopause, the journal of The North American MenopauseMenopause Society.

Underweight women who lost 9 kilograms or more at least three times between the ages of 18 and 20 were more than twice as likely to experience premature menopause.

Those who fell into this category at any age had, on average, a 30 per cent greater risk of early menopause compared with women with a «normal» BMI of between 18.5 and 22.4.

The other 1 million or so oocytes present at birth die off gradually by programmed cell death, or apoptosis, until a woman reaches menopause at mid-age.

«Our findings suggest that women who are underweight in early or mid-adulthood may be at increased risk for early menopause,» says Kathleen Szegda at the University of Massachusetts, who led the study.

So the authors write: «One of the biggest challenges now facing the medical research community is to identify women who need HRT and those who don't» Yet they go on to say: «At the same time women should be analysing their experience of menopause in the light of their own medical history, weighing up the evidence and making their own judgement.»

«Previous research showed that after menopause, women were at much greater risk for metabolic syndrome than before menopause began,» said Mark DeBoer, M.D., MSc., M.C.C., study senior author and an association professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.