Menopause

September 07, 2021

Successfully managing osteoporosis in postmenopausal women revolves around risk factors and risk-assessment tools for identifying women who are candidates for pharmacologic therapy, according to an updated position statement from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

August 13, 2021

A 12-week trial found implementing a dietary approach using a low-fat, vegan diet could help reduce the incidence of moderate-to-severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women.

June 17, 2021

Besides sex hormone levels, predictors for the age at natural menopause (ANM) include irregularity of menstrual cycle, menopausal symptoms, life habits and socioeconomic factors, according to a retrospective study of 105 middle-aged women who kept bleeding diaries.

June 14, 2021

Preoperative vitamin D deficiency adversely impacted early functional outcomes after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in postmenopausal women, according to a study from China.

June 10, 2021

Significant updates occurred in women’s health issues while the world was in survival mode.

June 04, 2021

A study in the journal Menopause has found that the risk of de novo severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is significantly greater after bilateral oophorectomy performed in premenopausal women.

May 10, 2021

Women with a history of preeclampsia were nearly 4 times as likely to have a stroke in later life compared with women without a history of preeclampsia, according to an analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study, which was conducted from 1948 to 2016.

May 06, 2021

Genetic factors predictive of reproductive aging also are linked to vasomotor symptoms (VMS), indicative of VMS having a polygenic architecture, according to an analysis of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) Genomic Substudy.

May 05, 2021

Data from successive surveys indicate that the mean age at natural menopause has increased by 1.5 years and the mean reproductive life span by 2.1 years between 1959 and 2018 in the United States.

April 12, 2021

A team of investigators has found that women with Down Syndrome received gynecologic care at lower-than-recommended rates and at substantially lower rates than other forms of health care. The investigators have called for efforts to improve gynecologic care for this vulnerable population.