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Menopause and perimenopause are coming in every woman’s life, but I was caught unaware, thanks to the paucity of medical training, scientific studies and woman-to-woman discourse about it all.
Women with vasomotor symptoms during menopause seem to have an especially unfavorable cardiometabolic profile, [36] as well as women with premature onset of menopause (before 45 years of age). [37] These risks can be reduced by managing risk factors, such as tobacco smoking, hypertension , increased blood lipids and body weight.
We asked 1,500 women for their intimate thoughts about menopause — the best and worst symptoms, how they saw themselves and what they want others to know.
Menopause is defined as one year from a person’s final menstrual period, and the average age is 51.5. ... perimenopause is the months or years preceding menopause. During this time, women can ...
The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin networking. It builds on the previously postulated "mother hypothesis" which states that as mothers age, the costs of reproducing become greater, and energy devoted to those activities would be better spent helping her offspring in their ...
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is an ongoing study of over 27,000 women that began in 1991, with the most recent analyses suggesting that, when initiated within 10 years of menopause, HRT reduces all-cause mortality and risks of coronary disease, osteoporosis, and dementia; after 10 years the beneficial effects on mortality and coronary ...
According to a recent study from Elektra Health, a digital platform that offers menopause-related education and support, only one in five women between the ages of 40 and 60 receive a menopause ...
Transgender men also commonly report experiences of hot flashes. [15] This is linked to hormonal changes possible from many aspects of masculinizing gender-affirming care, including the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists as puberty blockers , [ 16 ] reduction of estrogen levels after having undergone oopherectomy , [ 17 ] and long ...