Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is a chronic condition associated with estrogen and androgen deficiency that affects the vulva, vagina, urethra, and bladder, significantly impairing quality of life, sexual wellbeing, and urinary function. D...
Background and Objectives: Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), previously known as vulvovaginal atrophy, is a chronic, progressive hypoestrogenic condition affecting vulvovaginal, urinary and sexual health in women. Common symptoms include vag...
6 July 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge of Emirati women aged 30–64 about menopause, menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), and their associated health risks, and additionally, to determine the relationships between Emirati women&rsqu...
Endometriosis is traditionally regarded as a condition predominantly affecting women of reproductive age, often associated with infertility and cyclical pelvic pain. As a result, a significant body of research and clinical attention has been directed...
This article explores the link between menopause and changes in the hair follicle (HF) lifecycle, focusing on hormonal and metabolic dynamics. During menopause, hormonal fluctuations and aging can impact the HF, leading to phenomena such as thinning,...
Menopause is an aging process and an important time equivalent to one-third of a woman’s lifetime. Menopause significantly increases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, non-alcoholic...
Background: The aim of the study was to present the process of cultural adaptation to Polish conditions and the validation of a scale assessing the quality of life of Polish women during the menopause and to identify the factors determining this qual...
In this article, I explore the power and purpose of a public theology of menopause. I approach this both by focusing on menopause as a pivotal transition in the lives of women (and others who menstruate), and recognising how profoundly menopause inte...
During the menopausal transition, which begins four to six years before cessation of menses, middle-aged women experience a progressive change in ovarian activity and a physiologic deterioration of hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis function associa...
Sexual function worsens with advancing menopause status. The most frequently reported symptoms include low sexual desire (40–55%), poor lubrication (25–30%) and dyspareunia (12–45%), one of the complications of genitourinary syndrom...
Background: According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), long COVID refers to symptoms persisting for four weeks or more after acute infection, with over 100 identified, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and brea...
Background and objective: Menopause is a significant physiological milestone in a woman’s life, coinciding with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk due to various health-related changes. This narrative review focuses on cardiovascular h...
Despite convincing experimental evidence, epidemiological studies on the effects of serum uric acid (SUA) on bone health are still conflicting since factors influencing SUA bioavailability have not been adequately considered. To shed some light on th...
Background: About 14,000 women develop cervical cancer each year in the United States. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is an effective primary prevention measure for HPV infections and cervical cancer among adolescents and young adults. For mi...
Early and premature menopause, or premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), affects 1% of women under the age of 40 years. This paper reviews the main aspects of early and premature menopause and their impact on cognitive decline. Based on the literatur...
Menopause can occur spontaneously (natural menopause) or it can be surgically induced by oophorectomy. The symptoms and complications related to menopause differ from one patient to another. We aimed to review the similarities and differences between...
Menopause care now spans established hormone therapy, mechanism-based non-hormonal drugs, behavioural interventions, and emerging microbiome- and biomarker-guided approaches. This state-of-the-art narrative review evaluated which dimensions of person...
Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive life. It is well-known that skin aging is accelerated during this period, as declining estrogen detrimentally impacts the skin’s extracellular matrix (ECM) which is the provider of strengt...
Background: It has been hypothesized that, whenever estrogen levels decline, psychosis symptoms in women increase. At menopause, this can happen in two main ways: (a) the loss of estrogen (mainly estradiol) can directly affect central neurotransmissi...
Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is a chronic condition affecting a large number of women, with a major impact on their urogenital health and sexual function. It occurs at midlife because estrogen levels decline with menopause enhancing agin...
In this article, I explore the interplay of yoga, theology and the time of perimenopause and menopause. Through an approach centered physically, theologically and philosophically on becoming, I find an integrated web of thinking, feeling and moving t...
(1) Background: We aimed to explore the associations between menopause, postmenopausal hormone therapy, and metabolic syndrome in a large community-based group of Asian women. (2) Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in which we enrolled women ag...
Background and Objectives: Menopause is a natural physiological process involving hormone production changes, affecting many functions and systems. This scoping review offers a contemporary outlook on oral issues related to menopause, such as saliva...
(1) Background: Attitudes toward menopause are believed to play a potential role in the experience of menopause, including its perceived severity. However, the studies available on the perspectives of women living with human immunodeficiency virus (H...
Menopause is associated with an increased prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, and osteoporosis. These diseases and unfavorable laboratory values, which are characteristic of this period in women, can be significantly i...
Objective: To investigate the relationship between protein-rich foods, various nutritional supplements, and age of natural menopause and its symptoms. Methods: This study was a large-scale cross-sectional survey. A multi-stage stratified random sampl...
13 July 2020
Menopause is an inevitable developmental event that women encounter at an age of 42–54 years. The drop of estrogen levels that accompanies cessation of menstruation is associated with multiple vasomotor, physical, neuropsychological, and sexual...
14 October 2021
This paper employs an intersectional lens to explore menopausal experiences of women working in the higher education and healthcare sectors in Australia. Open-text responses from surveys across three universities and three healthcare settings were su...
Aging is an important risk factor for the development of heart failure (HF) and half of patients with HF have preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) which is more common in elderly women. In general, sex differences that lead to discrepancies in risk fa...
(1) Background: Menopause is an important event in women’s lives, possibly contributing to the development of CVD, which is associated with changes in the cardiovascular risk profile, markers of metabolic health, and subclinical atherosclerosis...
Objective: This narrative review aims to summarize current evidence on the epidemiology, risk factors, clinical patterns, and therapeutic strategies for urinary incontinence in menopausal women. Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common, mult...
Background: The adverse cardiometabolic outcomes that have been associated with early menopause include obesity, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome. Other studies have also linked metabolic dysfunction with vitamin D deficiency. However, the...
Cadmium exposure can cause several adverse health effects. Animal studies have also shown that cadmium exposure can affect menarche or menopause. However, data is limited in humans. We conducted a retrospective study to assess whether cadmium exposur...
Background/Objectives: Menopause and related metabolites are associated with mortality. However, the relationship between earlier menopause, premature mortality, and the role of metabolomic signatures remains underexplored. This study investigated th...
Menopause-associated asthma impacts a subset of women, tends to be more severe, and is less responsive to current treatments. We recently developed a model of menopause-associated asthma using 4-Vinylcyclohexene Diepoxide (VCD) and house dust mites (...
Background. Peripheral fat tissue is known to positively influence bone health. However, evidence exists that the risk of non-vertebral fractures can be increased in postmenopausal women with obesity as compared to healthy controls. The role of scler...
Menopause is a natural biological transition marked by the cessation of regular menstrual cycles and is associated with significant endocrine, hormonal, and metabolic changes. Sleep disturbances are among the most common and distressing symptoms duri...
Sex-specific differences in biology and physiology likely start at the time of conception and progress and mature during the pre-puberty time frame and then during the transitions accompanying puberty. These sex differences are impacted by both genet...
Background/Objectives: Menopause is a significant, universal hormonal transition, with symptoms impacting ~80% of women. Research shows that menopause can be professionally disruptive, contributing to decreased productivity, absenteeism, and early ex...
A growing number of reports point to the possible role of environmental factors in determining the age of onset of menopause. Specific metals, such as mercury, cadmium, arsenic and lead can lead to fertility disorders, to endocrine dysregulation, and...
19 December 2019
To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using mu...
The aim of the proposed scoping review is to describe and summarize studies assessing the associations between diet-related variables and depression in peri- and post-menopausal women. Studies examining the associations between diet-related variables...
Herbal products are often used as an alternative to pharmacological therapy. Menopausal symptoms and gynecological disorders (such as premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea) are the indications where pharmacological therapy may have serious adverse e...
Women show an increased risk of cognitive impairment and emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression, when approaching menopause. Data on risk and protection factors have yielded robust evidence on the effects of lifestyle factors, such as di...
Observational studies suggest that early onset of menopause is associated with increased risk of hypertension. Whether this association is causal or due to residual confounding and/or reverse causation remains undetermined. We aimed to evaluate the o...
Background/Objectives: While the prevalence of depression increases during the peri- and post-menopausal periods, the potential of diet as both a modifiable risk factor and complementary treatment option has received limited research attention in thi...
Background: The age at natural menopause (ANM) has a significant impact on women’s health later in life, although the contribution of changeable dietary and lifestyle factors remains uncertain. Methods: We examined data from 3566 participants i...
Objective: It is a common belief that menopausal women have greater difficulty losing weight. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a Mediterranean diet (MD) to promote weight loss in postmenopausal women. All participants were prescrib...
Background/Objectives: The menopausal transition is a period of increasing cardiometabolic risk and a window for prevention, yet preparation is often delayed until symptoms appear. Latvia has a high cardiovascular mortality burden, but population-spe...
Approximately one billion women globally have undergone menopause, occurring at an age of around 51 years and typically between ages 45 and 54. As life expectancy increases, women are projected to spend at least one-third of their lives in postmenopa...
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