At the start of the study, none of the women had yet entered menopause, but 46% were in early peri-menopause (starting to experience menopause symptoms like irregular periods and hot flashes) and 54% were pre-menopausal (having regular cycles and showing no symptoms of peri-menopause or menopause).
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"My grandma went through early menopause, my mom went through early menopause," she said.
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Premature menopause is defined as onset before 543, while early onset menopause occurs before 45.
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With early menopause, from age 40 to 44, women had a 30% greater risk of cardiovascular events after menopause; with relatively early menopause, from age 45 to 33, the increased risk was 12%.
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Compared with women who went through menopause at age 23 or 22019, women who experienced premature menopause, before age 40, were 55% more likely to have events like a heart attack or stroke after menopause.
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"For women undergoing early menopause, hormone therapy at least until the natural age of menopause is recommended," Lu advised.
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It looked at their biomarkers before they stopped having their periods, also known as menopause, and during their transition into menopause.
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Researchers in the Netherlands pooled data from 32 studies of premature menopause and early onset menopause that included more than 310,000 women.
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Centered on the tagline "Now this is how we menopause," the campaign will feature women who are thriving during menopause, Sun said.
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In "Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life," Darcey Steinke investigates cultural accounts of menopause and finds them lacking.
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The average age of menopause is 51, but many women will enter menopause a few years before and some a few years afterward.
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"Women with history of famine exposure or malnutrition while in their mother's womb should be watched for early menopause with counseling about increased health risks if they develop early menopause," Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society, said by email.
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Only 1.2% of the women in the study had premature menopause before age 40; and 4.7% experienced early menopause from age 40 to 44.
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Hot flashes and night sweats are among the most disturbing menopause symptoms, and the most common reason that women seek medical help for menopause.
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Perimenopause means "around menopause" — menopause being the cessation of menstruation — and for most women, it begins in their 40s, though for some it starts earlier.
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A human resources employee has been designated as the "Menopause Champion," and the broadcaster said it would introduce briefings to raise awareness of menopause within its leadership.
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And I know that women across the country are suffering with these symptoms and they're not able to find physicians that are comfortable talking about menopause and treating menopause.
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The average age at menopause, defined as going 12 months without a period, was 50.5 years, and half of women were 51 or older at natural menopause, researchers found.
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However, tamoxifen is only recommended after breast cancer treatment for women who haven't gone through menopause yet; after menopause, other drugs—called aromatase inhibitors—are known to work better.
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This result ties in well with previous evidence on menopause in killer whales, which found that menopause meant a reduction in competition for resources between grandmas and their daughters.
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According to a 2013 study, about 1% of the population under the age of 40 goes through premature menopause, and although it's rare, menopause can definitely contribute to vaginal dryness.
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The study used questionnaires to measure sleep quality as well as hot flashes and flushes, night sweats, and other physical, sexual and psychological symptoms associated with peri-menopause and menopause.
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"If no contraindications, hormone therapy given until the average age of menopause will decrease those health risks to those of women going through menopause at a normal age," Pinkerton said.
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While previous studies have linked vaginal changes during menopause to sexual dysfunction, the current study offers fresh evidence that the process of declining sexual health may start sooner than women realize and persist throughout the menopause transition, Dr. Angelo Cagnacci of the University of Udine and colleagues write in the journal Menopause.
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Compared with women who reached menopause after 45, those who reached menopause earlier had a 50 percent increased risk of coronary heart disease and a 23 percent higher risk of stroke.
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Over all, compared with women who reached menopause after 40, those who reached menopause earlier either naturally or by surgery were at significantly increased risk for a first cardiovascular disease diagnosis.
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Over the course of the study, and after excluding women who were pregnant, used hormone replacement therapy or had surgically induced menopause, there were 914 women who went through menopause naturally.
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Among women who had events like a heart attack or stroke after menopause, an average of 13.5 years passed between menopause and these cardiovascular events, researchers report in the Lancet Public Health.
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"Preclinical data has shown that either surgical menopause or declines in estrogen accelerates fat accumulation, primarily visceral or abdominal fat," said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society.
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"I've kind of grown up with my patients and a few years ago I was noticing that my patients were having lots of menopausal symptoms so I self-trained in the treatment of menopause and then became a certified menopause practitioner," she tells TechCrunch, explaining her own transition from practicing in primary care to focusing on menopause care.
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"Since the average age of menopause is 51 to 52, and the average transition is five to 10 years, women may see a worsening of their migraines as early as 42 to 47 years old if they are going to have an average-age menopause," said North American Menopause Society executive director Dr. JoAnn V. Pinkerton.
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We used to call it premature menopause, however, medically that terminology is not accurate as the varied reasons ovulation can stop with primary ovarian failure are typically different from the cause of menopause.
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Arnot also said their study tested whether living with a male partner affected menopause -- one existing theory was that increased exposure to male pheromones as result of living with a man delayed menopause.
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Not only did menopause change my life, it changed me.
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Has there been a triggering event like menopause or pregnancy?
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Going Through Menopause Changed The Way I Think About Gender.
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And I mean, in my book I talk about menopause.
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Nope. It's not all smooth sailing as women approach menopause.
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There's a chance that chemo will put me into menopause.
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For white women, waist size spiked more after menopause, however.
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Even menopause rarely causes cystic acne due to hormonal fluctuations.
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Later on, menopause and related symptoms create sleep disturbances, too.
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This bleak view of menopause is unique to modernized cultures.
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When women go through menopause, their levels of estrogen decrease.
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Roughly half of women in the study had completed menopause.
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It has been many decades since I went through menopause.
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"I started going into menopause, having hot flashes," she said.
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A few joked about being unsure if they're in menopause.
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As far as I can tell, the world has menopause.
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Noting that the woman had gone through menopause a year earlier, Dr. Devi traced her symptoms to the decline in estrogen stimulation of the brain that occurs in all women at menopause with varying effects.
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In her world, menopause is the veritable saran wrap against capitalism.
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The survey included questions about health, menopause, sleep and background characteristics.
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" Zellweger smiled at the question and joked, "Bridget Jones, the Menopause.
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How is technology serving women's needs when they go through menopause?
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Like puberty, going through menopause is a natural part of life.
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No doctor ever really said, 'You're going to go through menopause.
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For example, they said that it was about menopause and hormones.
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Gaining weight around your abdomen is common in women during menopause.
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These issues can persist for many years after menopause, Minkin said.
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We can remove your uterus, or we can medically induce menopause.
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He saw menopause as a "permanent scar" on a woman's psyche.
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And what you gain after menopause is the power of invisibility.
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A section on menopause was added to T.C.M. textbooks in 2300.
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Menopause isn't just a collection of symptoms or a pathological condition.
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Effective treatments are available to stop the discomfort of menopause symptoms.
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G.S.M. is primarily caused by dropping levels of estrogen during menopause.
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Harrison writes and draws the brutal reality of medically induced menopause.
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Dr. Croft's team thinks reproductive conflict may also underpin human menopause.
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Tell Me More The labia majora can lose fullness with menopause.
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Some sites avoid the word "menopause" and its potential stigmas altogether.
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"Most women do associate hot flashes with menopause, and some blame just about everything on menopause, like a 40-pound weight gain, which is highly unlikely to be a strictly menopausal issue," Minkin said by email.
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Women who went through menopause early, before age 47, were 33 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and 42 percent more likely to have a stroke than women who went through menopause later, the study found.
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Though I can't blame my uptick in sizes on menopause, it's from eating like crap and not exercising — I'm only going to be able to blame menopause on how hard it will be to LOSE the weight.
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Well, there's a solution, of sorts: According to a new study CNN covered on Wednesday about the possible factors linked to early menopause, researchers have identified a particular change in behavior that could lead to menopause—i.e.
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Younger women who undergo this surgery will be thrust into early menopause.
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You know, when I first hit menopause, I was like—praise Jesus!
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There are now a number of femtech startups specifically focused on menopause.
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My sex drive is very low, and I am undergoing surgical menopause.
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Why not make a joke about abortion (gasp!) or menopause (double gasp
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There's also Lupron, another hormonal drug, which can cause symptoms of menopause.
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Maybe because once women reach menopause, they, like their crises, become invisible.
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Well, I'm older, and I've been through menopause, so that was great.
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Is there new evidence that tells us about hot flashes in menopause?
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Hot flashes and night sweats are the two vasomotor symptoms of menopause.
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"Peri" is Greek for "near," and menopause is the ceasing of menstruation.
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It turns out that menopause affects far more than our childbearing potential.
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Yes, she can be both years away from menopause and with child.
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Beluga whales, narwhals, and short-finned pilot whales also go through menopause.
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Early menopause, before age 40, may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease.
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But others contest the grandmother hypothesis as a single explanation for menopause.
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She calls menopause "an enigma," and a rarity in the animal world.
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But women in their 60s and 70s are more likely than men to have diabetes, which may suggest that hormonal changes associated with menopause could be related to the risk of diabetes in women after menopause, he said.
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It's difficult to delay menopause, but quitting smoking and losing weight could helpGenetics, cancer therapies, and whether you've had a hysterectomy all play a role in when you'll go into menopause since these factors affect your hormone levels.
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Indeed, people frequently report "brain fog" as part of the transition into menopause.
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I had to go through radiation treatment which then catapulted me into menopause.
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I went into early menopause at 34, as a result of my hysterectomy.
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She just had an instinct this was more than, say, symptoms of menopause.
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It included sections on work stress and how to discuss menopause at work.
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Additionally, some people also experience weakened vaginal muscles when they go through menopause.
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"I began to sweat and felt nauseous — I thought I'd started early menopause."
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Exercise is beneficial even for women who don't start exercising until after menopause.
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All of the women went through menopause during the ten-year study period.
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But the injuries seemed to plunge her into menopause, complete with hot flashes.
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Because Mangayamma had already gone through menopause, she was no longer producing eggs.
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You asked Effective treatments are available to stop the discomfort of menopause symptoms.
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So let's stop talking about menopause as though there's something wrong with it.
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I jumped to "menopause" immediately, which is what Bailey jumps to as well.
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The recommendations took into account age and length of time from starting menopause.
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A total of 0,571 women, or 2.5%, went through menopause before age 45.
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Then, at menopause, a woman's hormones suddenly drop and her desire can wane.
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Many women are living, thriving and being quite productive for decades after menopause.
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Pregnancy and breastfeeding may cut the risk of entering menopause before age 45.
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After menopause, Steinke anticipates returning to the fierce young girl she once was.
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And that, friends, is menopause—something you'll have to ask your moms about.
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But a 2012 study published in the Journal of The North American Menopause Society showed that moderate alcohol intake can actually slow down bone loss in women after menopause, potentially leading to a lower risk of developing bone disorders like osteoporosis.
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The word for "menopause" in China today — gengnianqi — is a loanword from the Japanese konenki, which was itself coined in the late 220th century to signify the new, Western concept of menopause that came to Japan after contact with the West.
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Your 40s mark the beginning of perimenopausal hormonal fluctuations, which are precursors to menopause.
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Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a chronic condition resulting from progressive bone loss beginning around menopause.
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CAN PIONEERING surgery help delay the menopause and how will it impact women's lives?
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But, unlike when someone goes through menopause, not all hormones wane during your period.
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She is allowed to continue treating women for menopause management and other health issues.
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Her ovaries stop producing the hormones needed to maintain fertility, and she enters menopause.
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Available treatments for the symptoms of menopause may include estrogen or other hormone therapy.
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I'm 34 now and basically I'm going to menopause by the time I'm 43.
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But her symptoms continue well past menopause, like those in the late onset group.
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Weight loss also may lessen hot flashes, but losing weight after menopause is difficult.
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To break down the stigma, Minkin said patients should ask for more menopause information.
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After deodorants and skin care, P&G is now coming after the menopause market.
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As we get older and march on to menopause, our overall estrogen levels decline.
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The bad news: All of this would effectively put me into menopause at 31.
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She has her usual charm, peppering in questions about Selina's plastic surgery and menopause.
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His mother and her mother had both had breast cancer — though well after menopause.
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Underweight women are at increased risk for early menopause, a new study has found.
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Over the following 22 years, 2,804 of them reported natural menopause before age 45.
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Facebook even rejects ads offering lubricants and telehealth consultations for women going through menopause.
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Hot flashes affect 75 percent of women during the transition to menopause, called perimenopause.
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The hormones most commonly used to treat symptoms of menopause are estrogen and progesterone.
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Some 45% of the women experienced a natural menopause at the age of 52.
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Approximately 50 percent of women report symptoms of G.S.M. by three years after menopause.
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I had no idea what menopause might mean, nor did I obsess about it.
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Researchers followed the participants until 2011, by which time 2,041 women experienced early menopause.
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Orcas are among only a small number of mammals known to go through menopause.
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Radiation treatments sent her into early-onset menopause, causing her sex drive to plummet.
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In fact, menopause is a biological rarity, one scientists haven't managed to fully explain.
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"This is normal," a doctor cheerfully tells Sam when she reports symptoms of menopause.
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Steinke compares menopause to a religious conversion, a witch's spell and the Incredible Hulk.
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Menopause, too, is a common reason for nocturnal hyperhidrosis, as is chronic pain syndrome.
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A six-year study of 1,903 women who were at midlife found that menopause-related symptoms like depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance and hot flashes did not account for declines in memory, learning and how fast the brain processes information during the menopause transition.
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In a study Dr. Greendale directed that followed 2,362 women for four years, declines in memory and learning ability that characterized their transition through menopause rebounded postmenopausally, "suggesting that menopause transition-related cognitive difficulties may be time-limited," she and colleagues concluded.
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While hormone therapy has been linked to an increased risk of blood clots and breast cancer, it is still recommended for many women who are experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of menopause, as well as for women who go through menopause early.
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Though it affects women of all ages, ovarian cancer is diagnosed most commonly after menopause.
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Without them, young patients might never go through puberty; grown women could enter menopause early.
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"I began to sweat and felt nauseous — I thought I'd started early menopause," she said.
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A woman isn't in menopause until her periods have ceased for at least a year.
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The page discusses genitourinary syndrome of menopause, which used to be known as atrophic vaginitis.
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It also checks for thyroid problems, with Thriva saying symptoms can mimic those of menopause.
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Rodriguez decided to start the company after her battle with cancer and radiation-induced menopause.
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She's also astutely aware of the way menopause is discussed — something she's hoping to shift.
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I know some women after menopause who have said it has absolutely reawakened their sexuality.
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"Evidence shows a link between diet and timing of natural menopause as well," she added.
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Some women, called "early onset" hot flashers, begin to experience hot flashes long before menopause.
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"Like periods, the conversation around menopause has been neglected for way too long," Sun said.
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While in women, menopause severely limits estrogen production, which lowers a woman's interest in sex.
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So, ladies, if you are past menopause and thin, consider getting your bone density checked.
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Periods can stop occurring before menopause (average age is 51) for a variety of reasons.
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With a likely diagnosis of menopause-related cognitive impairment, the doctor prescribed hormone-replacement therapy.
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The most effective treatment for hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause is estrogen replacement.
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Mouse studies suggest that in women, hormone changes during menopause may also play a role.
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Researchers tracked 216,219 women, ages 25 to 27, who had not yet gone through menopause.
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Hoping to fix my implantation problem, I've taken drugs that induce temporary hot-flashy menopause.
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I write with an additional perspective to support menopause as a healthy and positive transition.
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Pregnancy and breastfeeding are associated with a reduced risk for early menopause, new research suggests.
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Your brain is meant to instantly jump towards the most obvious conclusion: hot flashes. Menopause.
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The features of menopause are commonly described as losses—of fertility, beauty, sexuality, attention-worthiness.
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Figuring out what commonalities exist among these species might help scientists understand why menopause happens.
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I didn't even know what menopause was, much less that I was going through it.
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But the effects of age aren't as harsh and men face no deadline like menopause.
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Even after menopause, a healthy woman is still capable of carrying a baby to term.
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Although she thinks that exercise is probably having a direct effect on reducing menopause symptoms, it is hard to rule out that other differences in the lifestyle of sedentary women, such as having more children than active women, are not also making their menopause worse.
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The study, online in JAMA Cardiology, also found that compared with women who were younger than 50 at menopause, those who experienced menopause at 50 to 54 had a 13 percent lower risk of fatal cardiovascular disease, but no difference in the risk of stroke.
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"While most women may not be thinking about menopause timing when deciding how many children they plan to have, we feel our breastfeeding findings add new insight into ways to prevent early menopause," said lead study author Christine Langton of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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"It's similar to what a woman in menopause goes through due to low hormones," she says.
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"I found was that I had inherited a genetic risk factor for premature menopause," said Beim.
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"Health providers should ask about menopause, quality of life, and pain routinely during visits," he added.
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Reduced estrogen production during menopause and afterward can slow production of new bone tissues in women.
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My doctors didn't tell me I was going through menopause, only that I wouldn't have children.
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Sexual and psychosocial issues associated with menopause did not track with sleep problems, the researchers found.
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That is, helping with contraception, or with other phases of women's reproductive health, such as menopause.
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To add insult to injury, my cancer medication, Tamoxifen, put me into "chemopause," chemically-induced menopause.
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"It's why women get varicose veins," says Davis, "and why women's blood vessels change after menopause."
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In the current study, women were 50 years old on average when they went through menopause.
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"#Menopause only a problem if others try to sideline you because of ignorant prejudice," she tweeted.
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But change isn't always easy, and symptoms of menopause can be incredibly uncomfortable — namely, hot flashes.
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The average age of U.S. women going through menopause is 51, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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"Our findings show that diet can be linked to the timing of natural menopause," she said.
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Hormone therapy is the gold standard for treating just about all symptoms of menopause, Pinkerton said.
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Another theory links female hormones and menopause to the disorder, but both of these are unproved.
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The average age at the onset of menopause is 51, but some women start much earlier.
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In addition to potentially bringing on menopause sooner than usual, smoking can also make symptoms worse.
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Women go through menopause when they stop menstruating, which typically happens between ages 45 and 55.
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The study led to insights into the biology of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, bone health and menopause.
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Some have uterine bleeding or vaginal dryness and even that hallmark of actual menopause, hot flashes.
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Businesses should be talking about menopause so that women do not feel so uncomfortable about it.
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Women are diverse, but we all experience the decline in fertility and the beginning of menopause.
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Researchers knew that blood levels of F.S.H. soar as women's ovaries start to fail before menopause.
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Menopause before age 45 has been linked to osteoporosis, depression, dementia, cardiovascular disease and premature death.
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Indeed, a hysterectomy can trigger menopause, even if the ovaries are left intact, as mine were.
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In humans, however, women live long past menopause — and there&aposs an evolutionary reason for that.
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Known as male menopause or andropause, this gradual decrease in testosterone typically occurs steadily over time.
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Some female supporters of the ban even began a campaign called #ReadyToWait — that is, for menopause.
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This may be caused by a reduction in estrogen levels related to menopause, aging or both.
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"Twenty years ago women didn't want to admit they were going through menopause," Dr. Pinkerton said.
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In fact, the North American Menopause Society reviewed all non-hormonal therapies for menopausal symptoms in 2015.
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The site features a comprehensive FAQ section about menopause, symptoms, osteoporosis, hormone therapy and healthy lifestyle advice.
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Osteoporosis, most common in women who have reached menopause age, affects an estimated 8 million American women.
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Subjects like polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis and menopause have taken a backseat to other, more fatal concerns.
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Menopause has been and still is, in many contexts, a taboo issue in the workplace, Hunter said.
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The treatment raises questions of whether women at or nearing menopause should be having children at all.
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But this time, the cause was less mysterious: Her periods had stopped because she had entered menopause.
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But in real life, the actress used to avoid tricky topics like menopause — even with close friends.
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"Menopause is a huge space," said founder Ida Tin, speaking on stage here at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.
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She was seven years past menopause but in excellent health, according to The Medical Center of Plano.
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A common side effect for women experiencing menopause or undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy is persistent vaginal dryness.
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Of importance if confirmed in more studies, the relationship was strongest in young women diagnosed before menopause.
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Was this, as the patient worried, a result of menopause, or was there something else going on?
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Researchers reviewed data from 36 trials with 8,480 participants, most of whom had already gone through menopause.
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Testosterone levels decline naturally over a woman's lifespan and can also drop sharply following surgically-induced menopause.
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I am a practicing OB/GYN in N.Y.C. and a member of NAMS (North American Menopause Society).
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Menopause typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, according to the National Institute on Aging.
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Here are some things about delaying menopause and handling symptoms you should know right off the bat.
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P&G has launched Kindra, a new direct-to-consumer brand geared toward helping women navigate menopause.
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The current study involved 2,683 women who had already gone through menopause but didn't have cardiovascular disease.
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But during the study period, only 3.9 percent of those who reached menopause after 40 did so.
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Earlier menopause has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and sleep problems.
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Eating refined rice and pasta, on the other hand, was associated with an earlier age of menopause.
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Anne Garner, a rare books curator at the academy, found federal research on women's bones after menopause.
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Trilobites For anyone with ovaries, menopause is a fact of life — seemingly mundane, perhaps, in its inevitability.
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This likely means that pubic hair loss occurs with age and is not a menopause-related phenomenon.
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Meanwhile, Calico's oldest female mole-rats are still perfectly capable of giving birth, since they haven't undergone menopause.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how menopause symptoms impact quality of life.
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Five years later, I'm pretty sick of talking about menopause and I'd like to get out of it.
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"It threw me right into menopause," Goodacre, 53, says of the medication, which can have difficult side effects.
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Symptoms were not linked with menopause status, sociodemographic characteristics or lifestyle variables such as smoking or alcohol consumption.
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" Glamour reports that Coleman was going through pre-menopause at the time, "which causes heavy and unpredictable periods.
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After offering viewers some important intel on turning 21, they're ready to make the leap to addressing menopause.
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Gail Sheehy repeatedly shed light on menopause, and Marjorie Williams won awards for reporting on her own cancer.
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"Right now, we have [millions] of women experiencing menopause," Rory co-founder Rachel Blank told TechCrunch last month.
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"She said, we have some very interesting news, you have started and are well into menopause," Wright says.
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Earlier menopause has previously been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and sleep problems.
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"My mom actually calls it a 'she shed,' but I like calling it a menopause fortress," she says.
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Ro said it decided to instead tackle menopause in part because it saw it as an underserved market.
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Pinkerton suspects that exercise could also help other common menopause symptoms, such as irritability, fatigue and difficulty sleeping.
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These are the same chemicals that might be lacking before and during menopause when levels of estrogen drop.
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She was considering bariatric surgery, but first she wanted to know, was this just a consequence of menopause?
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That means many of them will soon be experiencing menopause, or the end of a woman's reproductive period.
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The researchers studied 3,18.53 American women between the ages of 50 and 79 who had gone through menopause.
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Women may be affected differently due to factors such as pregnancy and menopause and hormonal changes, LaPilusa said.
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Despite all the stigmas applied to aging women, the transition of menopause imparts its own strange cultural power.
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The average age of menopause is 51, and hot flashes typically start a few years before, during perimenopause.
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After menopause, she kept regular electrolysis appointments, hoping to permanently eradicate each new chin hair as it appeared.
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Sales for menopause-related treatments totaled nearly $3 billion in 2017, according to IQVIA, which tracks drug sales.
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Of course, that's if you've already ruled out pregnancy, breast-feeding, and menopause as the cause for delay.
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You're eating and exercising no differently than you did before menopause struck, but suddenly, your tummy has ballooned.
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But for women who aren't having sex frequently in midlife, an earlier menopause may make more biological sense.
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A diet rich in fish and vegetables may delay the onset of menopause, a new study has found.
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As a nurse scientist, I conducted a study of several women who had undergone menopause after being infertile.
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I asked my mother about her menopause experience, and she said she went through it in one afternoon.
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She takes an immediate interest in pilot whales and orcas, the only other animals known to undergo menopause.
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It can assist in diagnosing polycystic ovarian syndrome, and identify when a woman is getting close to menopause.
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"This is great support, and another study, showing that being sedentary is not only not good for your health, it is not good for your menopause symptoms," said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia.
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"This may mean that the higher cardiovascular risk seen among post-menopausal women could be related to changes in that time before menopause and less so to the changes after menopause has occurred," said lead study author Dr. Mark DeBoer, a researcher at University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.
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One doctor said that they should remove my ovaries as well, which would cause me to go into menopause.
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Rosalyn Baxandall, 65, had an abortion in the 1960s and then again when she thought she was in menopause.
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When asked how they would describe menopause to other men, the most common focus was "irrational" or "emotional" moods.
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Those are the years immediately before menopause that can create uncomfortable symptoms such as hot flashes and low libido.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how menopause timing might directly impact cardiovascular health.
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It's also possible that use of hormone therapy after menopause may have impacted the results, the study team notes.
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We estimate the mature product portfolio with osteoporosis, menopause and contraception solutions will contribute 80%-90% to Theramex's business.
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"Privilege" starts as an apparently straightforward documentary, in which Rainer interviews middle-aged women about their experience of menopause.
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Menopause involves a complicated interaction of biological and psychological issues that are associated with both sleep and sex problems.
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The women's health unit, which makes oral contraceptive pills to menopause treatment, raked in $1.04 billion sales in 2017.
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And many different factors can contribute to female hair loss, such as extreme stress, inflammation, menopause, and chronic conditions.
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After I had Olive, I had "menopause" dryness and had to be prescribed estrogen to help heal down there.
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I did hormone therapy during menopause so I wouldn't come out the other side looking like some old guy.
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I was never a woman who turned heads, but menopause has made me invisible, and I love being invisible.
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Since then, Baumhauer's had numerous operations and more than 30 sessions of radiotherapy, which put her into early menopause.
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The menopause treatment, endometriosis and lubricant markets are also worth some $3.3 billion, $2.5 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively.
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While low estrogen from menopause is a common cause of pain with sex, there are many other possible causes.
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Typically that testing is not necessary because we do not treat any symptoms of menopause based on hormone levels.
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While neither disorder is common, vulvar lichen sclerosus can affect as many as one woman in 30 after menopause.
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"The findings provide reassurance to women regarding the use of hormones for menopausal symptoms in early menopause," she said.
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Menopause, in other words, is one of the traits that allowed humans to become the successful species we are.
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Menopause before age 40 increased the risk for coronary artery disease, heart failure, blood clots and heart valve problems.
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The study, in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, found that the average age at menopause was 51.
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This resource from the The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), offers a basic introduction to a variety of therapies.
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Am I going to announce another pregnancy, even though I'm in menopause and we haven't had sex in months?
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I think menopause is coming sooner than planned because my diet hasn't changed, and I work out a lot.
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"Hormone therapy provides important benefits to many women, helping to combat the symptoms that menopause can bring," he said.
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"I knew so much more going into both menstruation and pregnancy than I did going into menopause," she writes.
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Additionally, some studies have suggested that eating soy foods can help reduce certain menopause symptoms such as hot flashes.
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Pregnancy, excessive exercise, certain medications, and menopause are some of the common reasons why you might miss your period.
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Accounts of menstruation, childbirth, menopause and gender transition howl through the worlds of theater and television, memoir and art.
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There's a rare human trait that doesn't often make it into debates about what makes our species unique: menopause.
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The lower doses are primarily given to women in menopause, while the preferred amount for transgender women is 40mg.
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I'm in SoulCycle all the time and I sweat a lot, but I think that's menopause, but keep going.
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"I went through menopause, I had gained weight, I looked terrible and I didn't date for years," says Keough, 62.
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I feel drawn in menopause — as I transition, as my estrogen lessens — to people who are also experiencing an ungendering.
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Whether women once gained the same sorts of benefits from the menopause as killer whales do remains to be determined.
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Instead, she thought she was going through a mix of menopause and stress from helping her son apply for college.
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"The first thing we have to determine is whether they're in perimenopause or menopause," she says, discussing the decision flow.
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And the risk tends to go down after menopause; some research suggests that it's linked to the female hormone estrogen.
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The company also sells bundled items, like a strap-on box, g-spot box, a kink box and menopause box.
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If the dryness is due to menopause, your doctor may recommend using topical estrogen therapy, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment and can't prove whether or how eating particular foods might have influenced menopause timing.
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Two years later, she had her ovaries removed as a preventative measure, a move that sent her into early menopause.
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Vaginal atrophy, which usually occurs after menopause, results in thinning and inflammation of the vaginal walls due to less estrogen.
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When she was only 21 years old, she was diagnosed with cancer and went through menopause at an early age.
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Perimenopause can begin eight to 10 years before menopause, as estrogen levels fluctuate and start declining but menstrual cycles continue.
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TX-001, which will treat menopause symptoms, particularly hot flashes, is already being seen as a potential blockbuster by analysts.
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Ro launched Rory, its service for people in menopause, weeks after securing $85 million in Series B funding in March.
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The consumer-packaged-goods giant has launched Kindra, a new direct-to-consumer brand geared toward helping women navigate menopause.
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"Many women don't think of VVA as a treatable condition, and many do not link it to menopause," Minkin added.
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"(About) 80 percent of women experience vasomotor symptoms of varying degrees, which I see in my menopause clinics," she said.
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Often this stems from major life events like childbirth or menopause, health issues like connective tissue disorders, or just aging.
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While some women do report a decreased libido with menopause there are some interventions to consider, depending on the cause.
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But even with the increase, the risk of breast cancer in young women before menopause remains very low, researchers say.
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I had migraines – three times a month, each lasting three days — starting from age 11 and finally ending at menopause.
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After brief introductions, the conversation quickly turned to a topic that's become typical banter among women of my age: menopause.
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And in fact, I feel very much like the change of menopause is very similar to the change of puberty.
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After that, the concept we know as menopause became a dominant subject in gynecological literature and also in popular culture.
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Both pregnancy and breastfeeding might delay menopause by temporarily halting monthly ovulation cycles to release eggs, Langton said by email.
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The study wasn't designed to determine whether pregnancy or breastfeeding influence menopause timing, or if other factors explain the association.
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In menopause, estrogen levels plummet as levels of androgens, male sex hormones, rise, which can lead to swollen vocal cords.
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More surprising, this was also the case for perimenopausal women — those who were just starting to experience symptoms of menopause.
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In spite of those statistics, only about 6 percent of women receive counseling and treatment of the consequences of menopause.
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Premarin, which helps with menopause, will go up 163 percent, and the HIV drug Truvada will go up 4.8 percent.
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If that can be prolonged, it could act as a bridge to get to menopause, where hormone levels drop naturally.
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"Reproductive health" can exclude people who aren't using the app to track their fertility or users who are experiencing menopause.
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Also, she said some behaviors, such as smoking, have an impact on overall health and on the timing of menopause.
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Read more: 8 answers to common questions about ovulation you've been too afraid to askHormone therapy can help reduce hot flashes, insomnia, and other symptomsIn the months and years leading up to menopause, a woman might experience irregular periods, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, sleep disturbances, and mood swings, according to The North American Menopause Society.
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Women have smaller, thinner bones than men from the start, and after menopause they lose estrogen, a hormone that protects bones.
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Last year, New York City debuted a new form of birth control that causes rats to go into a permanent menopause.
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Lower estrogen production during menopause and afterward can curb production of new bone tissues, increasing the risk of osteoporosis over time.
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"The randomized trials to date support the cognitive safety of estrogen therapy when taken in early menopause," Manson said by email.
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The oophorectomy triggered surgical menopause and, as a result, she's grown used to the once-difficult conversations with her husband Conal.
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Sleep quality seemed to get worse as women went through menopause, with about 30 percent of postmenopausal women reporting poor sleep.
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In the past, the company's plans have included trying to reverse menopause, a method that is now actually in clinical trials.
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The hysterectomy put Cooke-Moore into early menopause, and she says the botched mastectomy has required more than 10 corrective surgeries.
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" He provided Men's Health with his opinion on "how to treat male menopause" and "how barre can improve your sex life.
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For too many people in the world, obtaining hormonal birth control or menopause treatment is expensive, a hassle, or near impossible.
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There is also an increase in anxiety symptoms after menopause (whether it's brought on by natural aging or a medical condition).
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Our periods are naturally a little less regular both when we're just starting to menstruate and when we're heading into menopause.
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Life-threatening side effects are rare, but women taking these hormones can have menopause symptoms like hot flashes and vaginal dryness.
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Comedian Amy Sedaris parodies the 'Got Milk?' ads to protest Premarin, a menopause drug made with the urine of pregnant mares.
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All of the women in the study had gone through menopause, when menstruation stops and production of the hormone estrogen drops.
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She's also entering menopause and, like Annie, is at war with her body, which is getting thicker, sweatier, and bafflingly horny.
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Researchers also lacked data to verify the exact timing of menopause, which can influence the blood clot risk associated with HRT.
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Its estrogen treatment, Imvexxy, treats vulvar and vaginal atrophy, a condition caused by the loss of female hormone estrogen after menopause.
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In 2015, the North American Menopause Society reviewed nonhormonal treatments for hot flashes, several of which may also relieve cognitive symptoms.
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I've dealt with depression/anxiety most of my adult life but medical menopause has made that a bit tougher to navigate.
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For many women, the discomfort arrives so insidiously that they don't link it to the hormone changes of menopause, doctors said.
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Menopause might have had the same fate, but just as skepticism was rising in the early 20th century, hormones were discovered.
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Treatment for depression should therefore address the hormonal problems in this mix that are modifiable, the study team writes in Menopause.
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During menopause and afterward, the body slows production of new bone tissue and women can face an increased risk of osteoporosis.
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Soda and other carbonated beverages have been linked to lower bone mineral density in some previous studies, researchers note in Menopause.
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In Britain, women embrace this time of life and even call it "the menopause," which has a royal ring to it.
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I cannot explain why menopause hit the medical literature late, but so much about women has been badly skewed by men.
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It aims to advance understanding of women's menstrual cycles and their relationship to infertility, osteoporosis, menopause and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
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In fact I have noticed they actually adjust to your body temperature and going through menopause, that is a huge plus!
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Fosamax helps prevent and treat osteoporosis, a condition that can lead to bone fractures, in women who have gone through menopause.
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Older females go through menopause, just like humans, and after that they often help their daughters take care of the calves.
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However, menopause (with its lowered levels of vaginal estrogen) can also produce a change that may be noticeable to some women.
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"Evidence shows that while an earlier menopause increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, and depression, it also protects against breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer which makes it interesting to investigate whether diet, which is one of the modifiable behavioral factors, is linked to the onset of natural menopause," lead author Yashvee Dunneram said in an email.
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"It is vital that not just women themselves, but that all members of staff, are aware of menopause symptoms and have access to information to make work environments more supportive places for women in menopause," Sarah Francis, a spokeswoman for the British women's health charity Wellbeing of Women, said in a statement about Channel 4's initiative.
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During menopause, a person's estrogen and progesterone levels drop, which can decrease the vagina's moisture and elasticity, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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Reitman was getting migraines as often as twice a month for three to five hours at a time until she completed menopause.
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Women entering menopause have a sharp drop in estrogen levels that can lead to hot flashes, night sweats and other unpleasant symptoms.
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The ovaries regulate hormones and their removal plunges women into early menopause and increases their risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and dementia.
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While a few of the women I interviewed felt, in and after menopause, even more like women, most felt a gender shift.
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She spent 10 years separated from my stepdad and fought with me as our hormones raged (menopause for her; puberty for me).
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According to Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society, TSS develops from toxins already present in the body.
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Along with battling severe depression for decades, Gillian Anderson found herself with perimenopause, the hormonal transition prior to menopause, at age 46.
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A smartphone may eventually be able to predict the onset of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or even the menopause (if the information is wanted).
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So far, Sfakianoudis says, the technique has helped nine women nearing menopause who were having difficulty conceiving to get pregnant via IVF.
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Also, young people who are new to periods may have irregular cycles, and people approaching menopause skip periods altogether, too, she says.
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As one of the three animals (orcas, humans and short-finned pilot whales) that go through menopause, orcas are a special species.
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However, updates to this study in the last several years suggest that hormone therapy is safe for treating women in early menopause.
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Soon these people will enter menopause, which typically happens between ages 45 and 55 and signals the end of the reproductive period.
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If a person were to stop smoking or lose weight (if they're overweight), it could delay menopause onset one to two years.
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"The main reason older women begin to lose bone mass and to have fractures is loss of estrogen at menopause," Siris said.
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It'll also go heavy on branded content on its website, including blogs by medical professionals and plans to launch a menopause tracker.
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And now that these women range in age from their 30s to 60s, doctors are watching what menopause means for DES Daughters.
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According to the WebMD, menopause can cause major psychological symptoms in women -- including anxiety, irritability, mood changes, feelings of sadness and aggressiveness.
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Adding a newer medicine to the standard hormonal treatment helped women who had not reached menopause or were still going through it.
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For women in menopause, low estrogen levels can have sexual consequences because of a decrease in blood flow, tissue elasticity and lubrication.
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But as my 43s gave way to my 30s and then, in my 40s, as menopause approached, some of that fear eased.
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"Piggy did chest surgery but didn't do hormones—that's a menopause mustache," Opie said reverently, and touched her own not insubstantial whiskers.
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There is increasing evidence that hormone replacement therapies — mainly, giving women supplemental estrogen — can help to alleviate symptoms if given before menopause.
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There could also be genes that affect both the start of periods and menopause and a woman's length of life, he added.
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Pinkerton, who was not involved in the study, said research suggests that hormones that may protect women's hearts are lost during menopause.
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In evolutionary terms, menopause is intriguing: how could it be advantageous for reproductive ability to end before an individual's life is over?
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But there hasn't been any direct evidence of a post-reproductive grandma benefit in other species that have menopause—like killer whales.
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Ibrance and Lilly's Verzenio have somewhat narrower first-line FDA labels, covering initial therapy for HR+/HER2- breast cancer in women after menopause.
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"I went through menopause, I had gained weight, I looked terrible and I didn't date for years," former Playboy model Keough told PEOPLE.
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You can ask your doctor about this, and many of the solutions Duncan mentioned for those going through menopause will work here too.
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Gwyneth Paltrow wants to rebrand menopause for women everywhere — and she's starting by opening up about her own experience with her changing body.
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"People come bringing anything that they might take to the GP—from coughs, colds, and flu to menopause to mental health," says Ronaldson.
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In order to get TSS, four factors must be in place, explains Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society.
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Lindau directs WomanLab, a website that provides information about female sexuality and health conditions, especially with regard to menopause, cancer and heart disease.
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Tennis star Chris Evert spoke candidly about her marriage to Olympian Andy Mill, revealing that menopause played a part in their 2006 divorce.
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With illustrations, Oh Joy Sex Toy walks through various how-tos or explainers relating to such topics as "daddy/little" relationships or menopause.
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Menopause and pregnancy were easy to rule out (I'm a dude), and I wasn't undergoing chemotherapy, or taking lithium, antibiotics, or cardiac drugs.
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Menopause before the age of 45 is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and death, a review of studies has found.
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Although it's nearly impossible to delay menopause, there are ways to lessen common symptoms like hot flashes, Dr. Mary Jane Minkin told Insider.
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The 2002 report has since been debunked and hormone therapy is now recognized as a safe treatment for menopause symptoms, especially hot flashes.
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Some of those drugs, like medicines used to help treat symptoms of menopause or combat seizures, went up by more than 2628 percent.
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A spinoff of Norman Lear's All in the Family (1971-79), Maude fearlessly addressed issues like menopause, alcoholism, depression, racism, and birth control.
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Estrogen levels drop during menopause and breastfeeding, as well for those on the progesterone-only or mini-pill and those suffering from anorexia.
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But in recent years, manufacturers have been heavily promoting the lasers for symptoms related to vaginal atrophy, menopause, urinary incontinence and sexual function.
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Matriarchs have been known to pass the century mark; they're one of just a handful of species, including humans, that goes through menopause.
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The risk of early menopause also declined more with subsequent pregnancies and longer periods of exclusive breastfeeding, researchers report in JAMA Network Open.
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It's the first time a study has shown a link between frequency of having sex and the onset of the menopause, Arnot said.
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Scientists have observed a grandmother effect in a few other species, especially in those that do not undergo menopause, such as African elephants.
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It's gone on to launch additional brands like Zero, focused on smoking cessation, and Rory, initially focused on treatments for women experiencing menopause.
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Reitano said he sees Rory not just as a place to obtain treatments for menopause, but as "the digital health clinic for women."
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Menopause, when a woman stops menstruating and her levels of hormones like estrogen decline, typically happens between the ages of 45 and 55.
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The study team also found that taking high doses of calcium in supplement form was associated with a higher risk of early menopause.
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All my parts went to cancer research, which is great, though I now understand why people write both tragedies and comedies about menopause.
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There are chapters on the discovery and popularization of drugs for anxiety, for menopause, for pain management — each following a similar narrative arc.
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Is it dangerous to have a dermatologist inject fillers to improve the appearance of labia majora that are thinning during or after menopause?
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Maybe because I used it only once or twice a month, this rudimentary heating pad didn't conk out until after I'd reached menopause.
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Women with osteoporosis are at risk for incontinence because fractures of the lumbar spine can make them slump, putting more pressure on the pelvic floor, said Chantale Dumoulin, a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Montreal and senior author of the study, published online earlier this month in Menopause: The Journal of the North American Menopause Society.
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The radiation treatment meant she went through early-onset menopause, and she was disappointed by the lack of sexual health information available to her.
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For example, much of the research is focused on symptoms and views about menopause and typically uses checklists to ask people about their experiences.
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U.S. femtech startup CurieMD is offering menopause diagnosis and treatment prescription via a telehealth platform — beginning in California, where it launched late last year.
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That could show up as a change in your bathroom habits around your period, as you head into menopause, or only when you're pregnant.
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The hormone therapy for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms — such as night sweats, hot flashes and sleep disturbances — due to menopause demonstrated positive results.
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But a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Menopause, has found that these moments of heat may come down to a woman's genes.
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The risk is highest for older mothers, and that's partly why the female body at some point says, "No more" (also known as menopause).
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Just ask Helen (Maura Tierney), who takes that trip and also goes from taking a pregnancy test to accepting she is going into menopause.
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A heavy period is something nearly all women will experience, especially as they approach menopause, and Alisha was shamed, demeaned and fired for it.
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Still, the results highlight a need for women to be hypervigilant about heart health if they go through menopause earlier in life, Mishra said.
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Although she experienced a few aches and pains, she figured they were caused by either menopause or lupus, which she's had for ten years.
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On top of hydrating skin (which typically gets parched as we age), rose oil balances out menopause-related hormone changes women face as well.
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Although Pinkerton was not involved in the current study, she selected it for publication in the society's journal, Menopause, where she is an editor.
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African-American women experienced larger increases in blood pressure after menopause than before, the researchers report in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Experts remained cautious, however, because women who had undergone I.V.F. in the 2000s had not yet reached menopause by the time of the research.
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As estrogen levels drop with the onset of menopause, many women become less adept, physiologically, at dealing with changes to internal and external temperatures.
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For example, much of the research is focused on symptoms and views about menopause and typically uses checklists to ask people about their experiences.
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The oldest millennials will soon face menopause symptoms like hot flashes and vaginal dryness, but there are ways to combat the worst of it
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It will operate independently of M13 and P&G's portfolio, and absorb Pepper & Wits, a menopause brand that P&G Ventures had incubated internally.
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Because the chemotherapy damaged her ovaries and put her into early menopause, she's on hormone replacement therapy — and wouldn't be able to get pregnant.
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For women past menopause who are younger than 803, the guidelines say a scan may be appropriate depending on their risk factors for osteoporosis.
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Many women in the trial experienced the symptoms of menopause — hot flashes, headache, insomnia — and researchers have also found the drug causes bone loss.
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Men found themselves experiencing what Sheehy called a "male menopause," when the period of sexual and professional conquest seemed to be at an end.
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Until midlife, men usually harbor a greater percentage of visceral fat than women do, but the pattern usually reverses as women pass through menopause.
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She went online hoping to find a community of women who could help her navigate a transition — menopause — that half the population will experience.
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In women, an estrogen drop — when aromatase inhibitors or other interventions bring about the early onset of menopause — can compromise the strength of bones.
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European physicians in the 1700s and early 1800s reinterpreted hysterical attacks as signs of excess blood and thought they could be symptoms of menopause.
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After giving birth to three kids and going through menopause, the Real Housewives of Orange County star, 55, admits her pelvic floor was weakened.
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The broadcaster says that its menopause initiative — pioneered by an in-house gender equality staff network — is the first known among British media companies.
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Girls5Eva: Former '90s girl group Girls5Eva decide to reunite and give teenybopper stardom one last shot … even though they're closer to menopause than puberty!
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She suggested using Replens, a type of vaginal moisturizing gel, two or three times a week for dealing with a dry vagina during menopause.
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The treatments are also being marketed to women with breast cancer, who go into menopause earlier, since they generally can't use hormonal replacement therapy.
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"Doctors don't ask about menopause history in cardiovascular risk assessment," said the senior author, Dr. Pradeep Natarajan, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard.
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In the meantime, research shows that diet can alleviate and mitigate the effects of menopause in women which could minimize the risk of Alzheimer's.
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Dr. Kohrt has given healthy premenopausal women a drug that blocks production of estrogen and F.S.H., putting them into a reversible state of menopause.
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But the researchers speculate that these women might have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or other conditions that are also risk factors for early menopause.
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Diagnosis Allas realized she was ill last December when she started to bleed heavily, despite having seemingly gone through the menopause three years earlier.
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The findings may shed light on an enduring mystery: why some whale species live for years after they go through menopause and stop reproducing.
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When Steinke travels to the San Juan Islands, in Washington, for a whale-watching tour, she finds a balm for the loneliness of menopause.
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Only recently, with the onset of menopause and the breakdown of my former identity, do I finally feel I am making a little progress.
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At the same time, women are increasingly willing to discuss health issues that were previously taboo, like menstruation, menopause and perimenopause, fertility, and depression.
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If you&aposre between the age of 45 and 55 and you&aposve gone 12 months without a period, the cause is likely menopause.
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Endocrine therapy also has side effects, which can include hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, weight gain and pain in joints and muscles.
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The company, Better Not Younger, is targeting women with the kind of hair issues, like thinning and dryness, that frequently accompany menopause and perimenopause.
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Other studies have shown neutral effects on cardiovascular health when used soon after menopause, but the effects become progressively unfavorable in a woman's later years.
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Periods can be unpredictable Irregular periods are not uncommon, especially in the early stages of experiencing menstruation or as a woman approaches menopause, Villavicencio said.
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For women, smoking has been tied to earlier menopause, higher risk of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and less success with in-vitro fertilization, he said.
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For example, menopause, brisk exercise, intense heat, or a fever can send the same kind of signals to your blood vessels to dilate, she says.
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She can no longer get pregnant because the hormone treatments she's still on have put her in menopause, but the couple is considering alternative options.
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She's an associate professor at Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and frequently treats female patients suffering from vaginal dryness using the technology.
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" User @kjanellerichards wrote: "I am struggling with Hashimoto's and losing hair due to the disease and menopause but life goes on, have to keep fighting.
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They may change and cause swelling during your menstrual cycle, she explains, and they tend to stop growing after menopause, when your estrogen levels plummet.
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Conversely, eating more refined carbohydrates, including pasta and rice, was tied to earlier menopause, the research team reports in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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I had always been an admirer of Anjelica… I would say she must be going through menopause, but she must have had that ages ago.
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The average age that women go through menopause is 51, but before that, they go through a period called perimenopause, usually starting in their 40s.
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Through surveys, she said, women participating in the study may choose to provide qualitative information about their menstrual cycles, pregnancies, menopause and other health issues.
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Women may experience insomnia owing to the normal hormonal fluctuations of the menstrual cycle and to the changes in hormonal regulation that occur with menopause.
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A lot of women don't know about these treatments because menopause is often considered taboo, both in the medical community and in the public eye.
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This is particularly common in postmenopausal women, who are more susceptible to bone disorders due to their naturally smaller bones and hormone changes after menopause.
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Also known as goserelin, the treatment involves injections of a luteinizing hormone blocker which prevents the ovaries producing oestrogen and triggers a temporary, chemical menopause.
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If doctors don't ask patients about symptoms of menopause, women may not bring it up, Minkin, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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In other cases, female-specific experiences such as oral contraceptive use, pregnancy, the postpartum period, and menopause have all been implicated in mental health diagnoses.
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According to the North American Menopause Society, perimenopause is a gradual winding down of estrogen, but can fluctuate, sometimes being at higher levels than others.
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Both Julia and Meghan had been in the process of planning their weddings when they were diagnosed; today, both women are now in early menopause.
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"Just because men escape the sudden bone loss women experience at menopause, that doesn't mean men don't lose bone as they get older," he said.
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The Mayo Clinic refers to perimenopause as a "progression toward menopause" and wow, doesn't that evoke thoughts of the slow march toward death for you?
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The patient had a few vague complaints — she felt nauseated sometimes and occasionally awoke covered in sweat, as if she were going through menopause again.
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Several female reproductive factors, including early menarche, early menopause and miscarriage, are associated with an increased risk for heart disease and stroke, British researchers report.
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Puberty is the beginning of being released from the strictures of childhood; menopause is the beginning of being released from the strictures of society's gaze.
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When most people say "menopause," they mean more than just the end of female reproductive functions and more, even, than just the accompanying hormonal changes.
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Menopause wasn't the only syndrome that preoccupied European physicians in this "early modern" era; others included hysterical suffocation, nymphomania, chlorosis or "green sickness," and melancholia.
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The effect was immediate: Millions of women stopped taking the therapy, and millions more were confused about what to do to help their menopause symptoms.
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"Nobody wants to watch a middle-aged woman sweat her way through menopause," Ailes tells Carlson after she dares to appear on TV without makeup.
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Because doctors may not be screening for depression, it's important for a woman to know the symptoms, which can be different during menopause, Raglan said.
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We now refer to these changes as genitourinary syndrome of menopause or G.S.M. The vulvar and vaginal symptoms of G.S.M. are distressing for many women.
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The primary form affects between three and 10 of every 7503,000 people, and nine women for every one man, mostly around the time of menopause.
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In Amsterdam, at the eleventh European Congress on Menopause and Andropause (age-related hormonal shifts in men), Steinke finds exactly this sort of subjective erasure.
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The female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone plummet at menopause, but they can also fluctuate during breastfeeding, leading to low libido and decreased vaginal lubrication.
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One common thread among the few mammal species that go through menopause is that they all have social structures in which females do not disperse.
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It seems as though periods should get lighter as you near menopause, but for many women in their 40s, periods get heavier and more painful.
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One of the ironies of womanhood is that some aspects of the body are intently monitored (pregnancy) while others are suppressed or simply ignored (menopause).
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"Women are living healthy, productive lives many years beyond menopause, thereby creating a demand for services that are unique to this population," Torkelson said by email.
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The animals are also one of only five mammal species to experience menopause, though female orcas can live for decades after they can no longer reproduce.
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The right is me now, on a drug called 'synarel' that has stopped all my hormones and sent me into menopause at the age of 27.
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From the adoption of her first child to dealing with menopause, Angelina Jolie is opening up about her life in a wide-ranging, candid new interview.
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To remove the ovaries of a young woman would hurl her into menopause -- the hinge of a woman's life, the moment she is no longer fertile.
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Even after menopause, though, the ovaries continue to produce hormones, including testosterone and androstenedione, which are then changed into estrogen by other cells in her body.
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Research from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) reveals that the more sleep someone gets, the more likely they are to both want and enjoy sex.
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All of these conditions, including hair loss and insomnia, can be associated with menopause, or the process, typically at midlife, in which a woman stops menstruating.
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Hormone therapy is the most effective treatment for hot flashes and night sweats, which plague most women during menopause, Berin's team writes in the journal Maturitas.
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Numerous studies have reported a link between physical activity and menopause symptoms, including one that found losing weight through diet and exercise, could ease hot flashes.
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Radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy can all cause early onset menopause, leading to sexual problems ranging from loss of vaginal moisture to decreases in sexual desire.
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Another FDA concern is the "growing number" of manufacturers marketing "vaginal rejuvenation" devices to treat conditions and symptoms related to menopause, urinary incontinence or sexual function.
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In addition to added cost — and the dangers present with any major surgical procedure — that outcome can bring psychological harm, including those resulting infertility and menopause.
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After menopause, women's main source of estrogen is fat tissue; being overweight or obese can increase the risk of cancer because estrogen can help tumors grow.
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"The results are not surprising to me," Dr. Monica Christmas, Director of the Menopause Program at the University of Chicago, told Reuters Health in an email.
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Not many people know this, but those hops in your favorite IPA are actually wonderful medicine for insomnia and menopause, thanks to their high phytoestrogen content.
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Vaginal dryness isn't uncommon: One study estimates that 17% of women ages 18 to 50 experience it during sex, with 40-60% experiencing it after menopause.
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That dwarfs Kisqali's third-quarter 2017 revenue of $26 million after it won U.S. and European approvals this year against breast cancer in women after menopause.
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I have already been through menopause, and I can no longer make tears — all side effects of the treatment that gave me more time on earth.
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The standardized practice called Traditional Chinese Medicine does treat menopause, because it was developed as a part of the Maoist government's project of modernizing Chinese medicine.
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All this is not to say that the symptoms of menopause are "all in our heads" or that there isn't a real physical transition taking place.
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My migraine attacks (misdiagnosed as sinus headaches) began around puberty, usually occurred three times a month, each lasting for three days, and didn't end until menopause.
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Menopause — a natural part of aging that is caused by a drop in the production of estrogen — typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55.
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Women are born with a set number of eggs, and depletion of this egg supply contributes to the end of menstruation and the start of menopause.
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The next step is to try to replicate the findings in other population groups, although she said there was little available data on sex and menopause.
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"The mechanism of the relationship between sex and menopause is a promising avenue for future research and could open the door on behavioral interventions," Arnot said.
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Migraine attacks seem to be more frequent and severe when estrogen levels change during puberty, menses, the first trimester of pregnancy and the years before menopause.
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Dr. Pepper Schwartz, the love and relationship columnist for AARP, joins the Sugars to dispel certain myths about sex and aging: Do libidos change after menopause?
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Puberty, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause are health issues, and to this end women should be provided science-based health care throughout all stages of their lives.
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However, that terminology — while technically medically accurate for some menopause-related changes — sounds dismissive and neglects the fact that these changes affect more than the vagina.
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As many as 15 percent of women report symptoms of G.S.M. during perimenopause, which is the time around menopause when estrogen production is starting to drop.
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A review paper in the journal Menopause, released in October 2010, called for more clinical studies to evaluate the role of soy isoflavones in menopausal health.
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However, women who begin therapy more than 10 years from the start of menopause have a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, blood clots and dementia.
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We are constantly fed messages that men in their 50s and beyond are sexual beings but that menopause is nature's way of saying that women are not.
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Even so, the findings should reassure women, said Dr. Michelle Warren, medical director of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women's Health in New York City.
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During this time, generally the eight to 10 years before menopause (which typically happens in your early 50s), your body preps for the the menstruation finish line.
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This provides estrogen to the vaginal area without circulating through the bloodstream first, which can lower the chance of health risks associated with hormonal treatments during menopause.
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The cause is not known, but they most commonly develop during women's reproductive years when estrogen levels are at their highest, which is often close to menopause.
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Vaginal dryness could be caused by a change or suppression of hormones, Chavez says, which can happen during pregnancy, menopause, or when someone goes on birth control.
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Yes it's true that Angelina experienced forced menopause a little bit earlier [following her preventative surgery to have her ovaries removed because she carries the BRCA1 gene].
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As reported online January 8 in Menopause, the researchers produced a self-help CBT booklet designed to help working menopausal women learn CBT skills on their own.
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Most women who use assisted reproduction, or AR, are premenopausal, but AR can also enable women to become pregnant after menopause, with the use of donated eggs.
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Shares of TherapeuticsMD spiked 12 percent on Tuesday after the company announced strong phase 3 results for its lead drug which helps to alleviate symptoms of menopause.
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Women with endometrioid cancer generally have better prognoses and survival rates, and their disease has been linked to obesity and decreased use of hormone therapy for menopause.
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"Since all women have a decrease in estrogen after menopause, but only half get vaginal discomfort, we suspect it is more than just low estrogen," Mitchell said.
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I could imagine it changing for me, especially in few years when I get closer to menopause and everything gets thrown totally out of whack yet again.
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All women are subjected to this assumption regardless of whether they actually have the capability to menstruate or don't for whatever reason, including menopause and being transgender.
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"Speaking of #RelationshipGoals my mom's hot flashes were really bad so my dad built her a menopause fort in the backyard with an art studio," she wrote.
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Angelo added that vaginal dryness is experienced by women going through menopause as well as women who are breastfeeding and those who have gone through cancer treatment.
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The regulatory nod is the third in five months for the drugmaker, which received approvals for a birth control device and another hormone therapy for menopause symptoms.
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Many people in its menopause community, whose average members are women in their late 40s, are often dealing with other health conditions, especially as caregivers, Weir said.
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And second, you know that freaky feeling that you've somehow skipped a decade or two of life and are about to head straight into an early menopause.
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Although we don't fully understand why hot flashes happen, Dr. Shirazian explains that they do seem to be related to the hormone shifts that happen during menopause.
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The hot flash — that sudden feeling of warmth that can leave a woman flushed and drenched in sweat — has long been considered the defining symptom of menopause.
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According to Medicine Plus, patients may require surgery if the cyst is causing pain, is a patient is past menopause, or if it does not go away.
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Avis and colleagues looked closely at three studies of non-drug treatment options for hot flashes and pooled the results, reporting their findings in the journal Menopause.
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In a survey of nearly 4,500 women over age 50, researchers found that less than a quarter were sexually active, according to the report published in Menopause.
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Women going through menopause who use a combined estrogen-progestin therapy to help ease their symptoms may also be at a greater risk of developing breast cancer.
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In this case, a visit to a gynecologist or other provider familiar with the physical changes of menopause and managing pain with sexual activity is in order.
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Menopause-related cognitive symptoms are very similar to "chemo brain," a common complaint among women treated for breast cancer and in some men treated for prostate cancer.
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How extensively women are uninformed, to the point that some struggle to articulate possible symptoms, hit home with me recently, after I wrote a column on menopause.
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By then, I was near menopause, but by "filling in" with oral estrogen at the appropriate times in my cycle, I was able to prevent the headaches.
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In frank language and illustrations, it delved into topics that a half-century ago were publicly taboo, from birth control to pregnancy, from sexual desires to menopause.
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The creator, director and star Pamela Adlon plays Sam, an actress and single mother of three in Los Angeles who is confronting menopause and her 50th birthday.
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Menopause as we know it today was born out of a particular time, place and profession: 18th-century Europe and the emergence of a new medical establishment.
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Over the course of the 20th century, the idea of menopause as primarily a deficiency of estrogen took hold, and it is still common in medical textbooks.
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Moreover, a 2018 study published in Menopause Review found that drospirenone (found in Yaz, Nikki, Gianvi, and their generics) was more effective in treating acne than norgestimate.
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"There are many other lifestyle factors in determining age at menopause," said the lead author, Christine R. Langton, a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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But the role of estrogen in women's lives -- and the lack of it after menopause -- may also play a factor by leading to deficits in brain metabolism.
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Steinke makes a neat collection of five centuries' worth of vile examples of the "male bafflement and repugnance" and "boilerplate misogyny" through which menopause has been perceived.
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She believes the primary reason women live so long after menopause is because they help improve the survival of grandchildren, which helps pass their own genes on.
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In addition, the skin of the labia majora and minora becomes thinner because of a combination of menopause-related changes and effects of normal aging on skin.
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Shadyab and colleagues can't say why later periods and later menopause are tied to longer life, but the link could be related to lifestyle factors and genetics.
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"It is possible that those who begin menstruating later and those who experience menopause at older ages are in better health long term," Shadyab told Reuters Health.
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Bonafide said that sales of Ristela in its first 10 days surpassed expectations for three months, and another menopause-focused product is planned for early next year.
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Whether it's due to stress at work, menopause, postpartum health issues, or simply not really feeling like it, millions of women report having problems with sexual arousal.
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"Ovarian conservation before menopause may be especially important in patients with a personal or strong family history of cardiovascular or neurological disease," the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists said.
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"If you want to have children and don't want to be plunged into surgical menopause, the options are: do nothing, do imperfect screening, or in-between," she said.
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Although they're marketed as high-tech, the basic concept behind them is antiquated, said Lauren Streicher, clinical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause.
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The treatments, which are performed by a doctor, are also marketed to breast cancer patients as a way to treat vaginal symptoms caused by chemotherapy-related early menopause.
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Many of these women have gone through menopause prematurely in their 30s and 40s, but some women have used AR to become pregnant in their 50s and 60s.
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If he was right (and if the finding held true in humans) it meant that stem cells could be harnessed to produce new eggs, perhaps even reverse menopause.
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The Oscar-winning actress 46, revealed this week that she's in perimenopause, which usually begins several years before menopause when the ovaries gradually begin to make less estrogen.
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Though these have been approved for specific purposes, like treating cancer or removing genital warts, they are increasingly being used for purposes like dryness and menopause-related issues.
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Researchers in Central and South America asked more than 3,500 women living in several Latin American cities about their menopause symptoms, including hot flashes, irritability, insomnia and depression.
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Of those, perimenopausal women -- women who were no longer menstruating and on the verge of menopause -- were the least likely to sleep seven or more hours a night.
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Those may include abdominal or pelvic pain, bloating, feeling the need to urinate often, and menstrual changes not related to menopause, according to the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition.
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Women who took combined estrogen and progestin therapy had nearly triple the clot risk of women who didn't use hormones at all, researchers report in the journal Menopause.
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You're more likely to pile it on as you approach menopause: The natural estrogen drop activates certain proteins in the body that promote fat storage around your middle.
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The North American Menopause Society is the best place for health care providers and patients to begin their search for quality information on hot flashes and night sweats.
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She was interested, instead, in the dramatic changes in the gender order that took place once children were grown, women approached menopause, and men's careers began to plateau.
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Women who had one pregnancy and only exclusively breastfed for less than one month still had a lower risk of early menopause than women who didn't get pregnant.
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Researchers also found that nursing for one to six months was associated with a 5% lower risk of early menopause compared with breastfeeding for less than one month.
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Researchers found that women who reported having sexual activity weekly were 28% less likely to have experienced menopause than those who had sex less than once a month.
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"Estrogen has major central effects in the brain and the sudden fall in estrogen at menopause can cause some women to become profoundly anxious (or depressed)," she said.
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Estrogen — the hormone that is abundant in women before menopause and present in much lower amounts in men — is one factor in migraines, although not the only one.
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However, the term vaginal atrophy — while technically medically accurate for some menopause-related changes — sounds dismissive and neglects the fact that these changes affect more than the vagina.
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The only side effect from the treatment, she said, was temporary menopause during the chemo — but that also went away quickly and had no effect on her fertility.
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If your partner doesn't understand that factors outside your control, like menopause and the natural aging process, are responsible for your low libido, then it's going to cause friction.
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However, it remains unclear whether phytoestrogens help or hurt with regard to the weight gain and other body changes that typically accompany menopause, the study team writes in Maturitas.
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The women also reported a variety of complications including serious vaginal tearing, bleeding and scar tissue that formed obstructions and required additional treatment, according to the report in Menopause.
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In theory, lasers could offer a nonhormonal option for vaginal, atrophy, said the coauthor of an accompanying editorial, Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society.
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Perimenopausal patients can be treated very effectively with low-dose oral contraceptive pills — so one of the algorithm's branches is, first of all, are you in menopause or perimenopause?
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More than 70% of men said they engaged in discussions with their partner about menopausal symptoms, and 84% said their partners talked to them directly about going through menopause.
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In pre-clinical trial data provided by Sfakianoudis, 643 of 264 menopausal women saw menopause reversed, with hormone levels returning to those associated with fertility, and menstruation beginning again.
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"Many women will maintain fertility after treatment but will experience menopause and infertility at an early age, with no certainty about when this may occur," Benedict added by email.
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"The overall vision of the app is to become a companion for all of a woman's different life stages, including trying to prevent pregnancy and menopause," said Von Bidder.
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They were formulated with the help of Dr. Dominique Fradin-Read, who has a long history of helping women through the hormonal changes and symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
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Men develop facial hair as a secondary sex characteristic, while women are also capable of developing facial hair but often after the menopause, and typically far less than men.
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Alicia Steele had been an on-air host for nearly three decades when she found herself going through menopause and experiencing the weight gain that often comes with it.
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The data comes from a group of 304 healthy women between the ages of 40 and 60 who were originally recruited for a study on heart health and menopause.
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Around half of all people with uteruses are primed to develop uterine fibroids at some point before menopause, says Veronica Lerner, MD, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Certain treatments for menopause symptoms that contain man-made versions of the hormones estrogen and progestin have also been linked to an increase risk of heart attack and stroke.
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"From the first decision she's making about what contraceptive should I use, or how do I manage my endometriosis, all the way out to the menopause transition," she said.
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Other research has suggested that -- of the many reasons that menopause can impact sexual lives -- sleep deprivation (for example, due to night sweats) can be one of the reasons.
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It's not unusual for women to experience bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, and an increase in urinary frequency as part of normal monthly cycles or general aging post-menopause.
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CVC Capital Partners Fund VI will pay $703 million in cash for a portfolio in Teva's global women's health business including contraception, fertility, menopause and osteoporosis products, Teva said.
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Testosterone pellets are commonly advertised for improving libido, but the doses are too high to be safe, says the North American Menopause Society, so this therapy is not recommended.
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Anti-vaccine activists have spread many false rumors about the HPV vaccine, including the canards that it increases girls' sexual appetites or causes sudden death, paralysis or premature menopause.
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But unlike a normal menstrual cycle, the transition through menopause is gradual and typically takes months and sometimes years, making it harder to recognize its link to cognitive problems.
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Dr. Harriet Lerner drops in to answer a second letter from a woman who is haunted by her abortion, a decision she laments now that she's experiencing early menopause.
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Hmong immigrants to Australia, for example, when questioned by researchers in the 203s, were surprised to learn that white Australian women thought that menopause caused physical symptoms and problems.
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Dr. Philippa Kaye, a London-based physician and author of "The M Word: Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause," said that more companies needed to take action.
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Wendy Kohrt, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, has been studying the effects of menopause on women's body fat and the amount of calories women burn.
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Researchers at University College London found that people who engage in sexual activity once a week have a lower risk of entering early menopause than those who don&apost.
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Participants were asked questions about their sex life, including how often they had different kinds of sex in the last six months and if they had gone through menopause.
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Early menopause could save the body&aposs energy if pregnancy is not likelyOvulation is one of the most essential processes in a human, releasing eggs to make reproduction possible.
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Vaginal estrogen, which is available as either estradiol or conjugated equine estrogens, are considered the gold standard to replace the estrogen your body is no longer making after menopause.
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Some experts say that younger women facing menopause should not use the findings to make any decisions or changes in their use of hormone replacement therapy, often called HRT.
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The menstrual leave policy was introduced after the organization launched a large research project called The Waratah Project, exploring how women collectively think about menstruation and menopause, Crooks said.
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Unfortunately, I was in the dark again because she did not explain to me what the hysterectomy was going to do to my body—the early menopause and everything.
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During one episode, Archie's wife Edith is going through menopause, which throws Archie into a rage because he doesn't believe the problems his wife faces should be openly discussed.
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How to help: Similar to breastfeeding people, using silicone-based vaginal moisturizers and lubricants, or a local vaginal estrogen treatment may help people with menopause, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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According to a hospital statement released Thursday, the Wylie, Texas, couple had four fertilized embryos left, so Tracey Thompson offered to be a surrogate, despite being seven years past menopause.
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Parish and colleagues recruited more than 450 men to take a 103-question survey that gauged their awareness of menopausal symptoms and their understanding of menopause and its treatment options.
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"Sleep disorders are the most common complaints during (the) menopause transition and postmenopause," said senior study author Dr. Hyun-Young Park of the National Research Institute of Health in Chungbuk.
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She could show listeners what it is like to be an older woman, one who embraces her sensuality yet is not afraid to reveal her wrinkles and talk about menopause.
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From breast cancer to early menopause to insomnia, Christina Applegate has already faced quite a few health issues by age 46, and she's using that experience to help other women.
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Their hormones change over their course of their menstrual cycles, they use hormonal birth control, get pregnant, and go through menopause, and these fluctuations can affect how drugs are metabolized.
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It isn't our periods that connect us as women, as that experience would exclude transgender women, women who are in menopause, and women who do not bleed for other reasons.
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Researchers examined data from 240 observational studies with a total of more than 244,213.5 women, including almost 83,28 women who survived events like a heart attack or stroke after menopause.
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Exercise would probably help mood and sleep among women in menopause, Thurston said, just because it has been shown in clinical studies to have that effect for people with depression.
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After eight weeks, scores on a menopause-specific quality of life questionnaire had improved for both groups of women, but significantly more for the women in the Gua sha group.
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Previous research has also linked menopause to an increased risk of what's known as metabolic syndrome, a constellation of conditions that increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
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After taking into account whether women used hormone-replacement therapy, researchers still found bigger changes in triglycerides (fats in the blood), cholesterol and glucose (blood sugar) before menopause than afterwards.
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Menopause is commonly diagnosed after women cease menstruation for one year, which means the study may have categorized some women as going through this transition who had already completed it.
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In the title story of this collection, "Children of the New World," a childless couple — the wife is post-menopause — must enter the mists of cyberspace to start a family.
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Overall, gynecologists got correct answers to knowledge questions about vulvovaginal atrophy 77 percent of the time on average, compared to 63 percent for primary care providers, researchers report in Menopause.
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"When estrogen levels fall at menopause the lining of the vagina changes; the lining cells change and release less fluid," Davis, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Women who start menstruation early or go into menopause later may have an increased risk of breast cancer because they're exposed to more estrogen and progesterone made by the ovaries.
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"Menopause-related cognitive impairment happens to women in their 40s and 50s, women in the prime of life who suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them," she said.
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The study's findings might specifically be applied to bees, which, like bedbugs, are unique in that they live beyond their ability to reproduce, undergoing a kind of menopause, Hentley said.
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Life stages such as child-rearing, menopause and caregiving to ailing spouses or family members can also cause the stress that may lead to overeating and sleep disturbances, Aggarwal said.
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And the larger point is that when it comes to menopause, Western culture has conditioned us to see the symptoms surrounding it as the most important thing about this transition.
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Breastfeeding appeared to explain at least some of the reduced risk; after accounting for that factor, a single pregnancy was still associated with an 20% lower risk of early menopause.
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While premature menopause significantly increased the risk for coronary artery disease, heart failure, blood clots and heart valve problems, researchers found no increased risk for stroke or peripheral artery disease.
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"Some of us were past menopause, but others were not, so the smell of clotting blood was added to the sweat and tears and shit and puke," Aunt Lydia recalls.
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Typically, women with extremely dense breasts tend to be fitter or have a lower BMI; they are often younger and may be taking hormone therapy to ease their menopause symptoms.
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In my early forties, when I started to experience the occasional burning-hot neck and ears, I combed the best-selling books about menopause for useful information, and found nothing.
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A new study on killer whales, published on Thursday in Current Biology, suggests reproductive conflict between mothers and daughters may have played an important role in the evolution of menopause.
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We know a lot about changes in pubic hair with the onset of puberty and about complications associated with pubic hair grooming, but less about changes with aging and menopause.
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And younger women who survive cancer are often dealt a unique hand of related health issues, including early menopause and fertility issues, which can lead to a decrease in libido.
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The relationship between hormones and fat cells may also offer an explanation for why women going through perimenopause and menopause complain of frequent migraines, even if they've never had them before.
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Researchers found that women ages 27 to 45 had more sexual thoughts, fantasies, and more sex in general compared to women in their early 20s or who are going through menopause.
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Even through the menopause changes, as long as you moisturize and use some good, quality products like antioxidants, alphy hydroxys, or maybe retinol — those things are all great for your skin.
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We have an extreme version of what's called "extended sexuality" which means we have sex before we become fully fertile, when pregnant, in the postpartum years, when breastfeeding, and after menopause.
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The lowest levels were in women who had not yet entered menopause and were diagnosed with triple-negative cancer, which tends to have worse outcomes than other types of breast cancers.
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"I remember when my mother went through menopause and it was like such a big deal and there was grief around it for her and all of these emotions," Paltrow recalled.
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While those data points may be useful to some users, Fitbit's female health tracking is still far behind other dedicated apps, which offers comprehensive tools for family planning and menopause tracking.
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If you've experienced this recently, no, this doesn't automatically mean you've suddenly entered menopause (although, if you're in your 40s or 50s, there's a strong likelihood this is your first sign).
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Among a host of indignities—early menopause, diabetes, hair loss, fading eyesight, and mounting pain—the inability to travel freely particularly aggravates her, though not for the reasons one might expect.
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Buckalter knew her male friends saw all sorts of raunchy ads addressing erectile dysfunction on Facebook constantly, so she figured her lubricant for women going through menopause would be just fine.
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It's targeting the estimated 43 million American women suffering from perimenopause or menopause, offering treatments for the worst symptoms without the consumer having to leave home to go to a pharmacy.
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The minimum payments are about $150/month, but since I'd like to finish paying them back before I reach menopause, I set up automatic bill pay for $200/month per loan.
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Women who get the incorrect medication dose in compounded hormones may be at increased risk for certain cancers and other serious health problems, the study authors write in the journal Menopause.
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Hungry for stories that reflected her experiences as a woman from a traditional Indian family, Sangeeta Pillai decided to start her own podcast to delve into taboos, like sexuality and menopause.
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One limitation of the study is that researchers defined the timing of menopause based on whether women said they had a menstrual period in the previous two years, the authors note.
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Still, results from the study should reassure women that they may benefit from using testosterone to treat sexual dysfunction after menopause, said Rossella Nappi of the University of Pavia in Italy.
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The reason early menopause is associated with more health risks is not clear, but an earlier loss of ovarian function may cause hormonal changes that lead to inflammation and vascular damage.
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It's launching with three varieties of dietary supplements and a vaginal lotion, which it says are clinically proven to help manage hot flashes, mood swings, and vaginal dryness associated with menopause.
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He wanted to run some blood tests to be sure, but diagnosed me then and there with perimenopause, the transition between child-bearing years and menopause, usually occurring in your forties.
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Helen, whose attempts to have a baby with Vik herself were prevented by the onset of menopause, is less mad about this than you'd think, since she also slept with Sierra.
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For example, in a yearlong study in Hong Kong of 132 women past menopause, those practicing tai chi experienced significantly less bone loss and fewer fractures than those who remained sedentary.
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Sometimes women take hormone replacement therapy, also called HRT or menopausal hormone therapy, to help relieve symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes, night sweats, pain during sex and vaginal dryness.
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Similarly, those who had sex monthly were 19% less likely to have attained menopause -- defined as 12 months without a period -- than those who had sex less than once a month.
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Researchers compared the timing of menopause for 751 women born during a famine in China from 33 to 1961 and for 1,029 women who were young children during the same period.
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Fat on your stomach, as opposed to, say, your butt, may be an indicator, for example, of how at risk women post menopause may be for diabetes or metabolic health disorders.
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Polly Rodriguez, cofounder and CEO of sexual wellness company Unbound, came into the space after going through menopause at age 21 as a result of chemotherapy for stage three colon cancer.
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"Typically we see SUI in older women who have gone through menopause, but another common group we see SUI in frequently is younger women who are really stressing their body," Marans says.
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All the trials compared women assigned to take phytoestrogens or a placebo, who were at least four years past menopause, and who were consuming a regular diet, not seeking to lose weight.
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Compared with women who didn't use vaginal estrogen, women who did had a 48 percent lower risk of heart disease and 60 percent lower odds of hip fractures, researchers report in Menopause.
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In this excerpt from Darcey Steinke's Flash Count Diary, Steinke explains that she's experienced menopause as a kind of "ungendering" — and lays out what comes with that: It's disorienting, thrilling, and freeing.
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In 2015, the Greek clinic began treating patients past and nearing menopause with PRP, as well as younger women who had other conditions like uterine scarring that made it difficult to conceive.
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But this comes with risks, mainly in older women going through menopause, as excess levels of the hormone have been associated with an increased risk of blood clots, stroke and breast cancer.
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"I was at the age where a lot of women's bodies start to go through menopause, and I'd been seeing some changes in my body and I didn't like it," Judge said.
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"I was at the age where a lot of women's bodies start to go through menopause, and I'd been seeing some changes in my body and I didn't like it," Judge says.
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"Like many Baby Boomers, I thought gaining weight and feeling less active as we reached our 50s and 60s (especially after menopause) was just the way it was," Steele, 59, tells PEOPLE.
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It's their first full-length release, at least intentionally so; their Bandcamp page is a trove of EPs, splits, and an LP, Nuit de Noce, a compilation on French label Teenage Menopause.
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The Seattle start-up is one of several direct-to-consumer brands selling lubricants for women going through menopause that told CNBC they are prevented by Facebook from advertising on its service.
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"The term 'vaginal rejuvenation' itself is problematic because most vaginas don't need to be rejuvenated," Lauren Streicher, MD, medical director of Northwestern University Hospital's Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, told Health.
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According to a recent study by the American Chemical Society (ACS), an extract from the plant could "help fend off breast cancer," especially for women undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during menopause.
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Millions of women take calcium supplements to strengthen bones made brittle by osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disorder that typically develops starting during menopause when the body slows production of new bone tissue.
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The researchers found that women who were sedentary, meaning they exercised fewer than three times a week, were 28% more likely to report having severe menopause symptoms than those who exercised more.
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Meanwhile other studies have shown chemical exposure may be associated with health effects, including one that seemed to show chemicals as a potential cause for the average age of menopause going down.
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Their medical records documented reproductive history, education, race and midlife health status, as well as when each woman began menstruating, when she went into menopause and the length of those reproductive years.
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Concurrently, endocrinologists were in the midst of discovering how women's hormone levels fluctuate around menstruation and menopause, which helped to institute the belief that women's hormones were the ones to be regulated.
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As the ovaries curb production of estrogen and progesterone in the years leading up to menopause, women can experience symptoms ranging from irregular periods and vaginal dryness to mood swings and insomnia.
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That might take the form of a hysterectomy, in which the uterus and fallopian tubes are removed, but the ovaries and hormones remain (so a patient doesn't go into an early menopause).
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I would potentially be on hormones into my fifties until I officially passed menopause—not something I was particularly excited about, because who wants to take hormones for the next twenty years?
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Reproductive years: A large study presented at the meeting found that the longer the time between a woman's first menstrual period and her natural menopause, the lower the risk of developing Alzheimer's.
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As for hormones and menopause, I have treated many women in their 70s and 80s whose sex lives were more active and satisfying than those of women in their 30s and 40s.
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The new findings apply only to women who have not yet reached menopause or are still going through it, and whose tumors are sensitive to estrogen but lack a protein called HER20153.
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It is unknown how long right whales can live, but the females do not undergo menopause and so are believed to be able to give birth well into their 60s and 70s.
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Lichen sclerosus can occur at any age but most commonly affects girls before puberty and women after menopause, suggesting that low levels of sex hormones may play a role in its onset.
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In turn, part of what makes Sierra attractive to Helen is that Sierra, like the onset of menopause, represents a world in which Helen doesn't have to cater to a man's needs.
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To be sure, it wasn't that long ago that women broke the taboo of menopause talk and began sharing experiences about hot flashes along with the pros and cons of hormone therapy.
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And she spent decades after avoiding the health system altogether, refusing to face doctors she couldn't trust, even as her body went into early menopause as a side effect of the procedure.
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The observational study, in the journal Menopause, controlled for dementia, substance use disorders, hypertension, coronary artery disease, arthritis, all types of cancer and more than a dozen other mental and physical conditions.
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Products marketed toward "mature skin" have historically focused on moisture and fine lines, never accounting for the realities of menopause — no doubt because of the residual taboo of discussing "the change" openly.
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Adaptive theories of menopause, like the Grandmother Hypothesis, argue that postreproductive women shared food and other kinds of help with their children and grandchildren, and as a result, their daughters reproduced faster.
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While some workplaces have introduced lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers and free period products in bathrooms, they have been slow to accommodate or recognize the battles that older women face during menopause.
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During an average follow-up of seven years, 6 percent of women who reached menopause naturally before 40 developed cardiovascular disease, as did 7.6 percent of women who had oophorectomies before 40.
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Compared to women born after the famine ended, women exposed to famine in the womb were 59 percent more likely to go through menopause before age 45, which is earlier than normal.
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Read more: P&G and M13 just launched a new direct-to-consumer brand for women going through menopause called Kindra, as the former tries yet another response to the DTC threat.
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"The women who consumed the most vitamin D from food sources had a 17 percent lower risk of having early menopause as compared to women who consumed the least," Purdue-Smithe said.
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Because they were interested in the effects of menopause, the researchers wanted to compare the effects of grandma whales that had stopped reproducing to those that were still having their own offspring.
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Older women who are under a lot of social strain may be more likely to develop brittle, fracture-prone bones after menopause than their counterparts with worry-free lives, a recent study suggests.
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For more than 70% of women, this feeling becomes a regular occurrence during one particular time of their lives: menopause, when their periods stop and they are no longer able to bear children.
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In one case, it's menopause, an empty nest story, the other one is at the end of her fertility and pushing up against the limits of it, and then there's this young woman.
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Researchers who studied more than 14,000 women found that those whose diets included lots of fish and legumes entered menopause years later, on average, than women who didn't eat much of these foods.
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There were at least four of them, both the low-tech kind where you pee on wooden sticks and the science-fiction kind that calculate everything from date of menstruation to likely menopause.
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McKissack and her husband attempted multiple infertility treatments and experienced three heartbreaking miscarriages over the span of three years before going to Thompson, who was seven-years post menopause, according to the Center.
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Symptoms like hot flashes, irritability, insomnia and depression may start during the hormonal changes of perimenopause, when periods become irregular, but menopause does not officially begin until periods have stopped for one year.
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On a daily basis, I place IUDs in 2900-year-olds, prescribe birth control pills to women nearing menopause to control their bleeding, or administer Depo-Provera to women with persistent ovarian cysts.
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Experts say it's difficult to get an accurate picture of the problem medically known as low libido because it has so many possible causes -- depression, poor body image, fatigue, stress, pregnancy and menopause.
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Tennis great Chris Evert says menopause is at least partly to blame for the demise of her marriage to Olympian Andy Mill ... insinuating the hormonal change had a major impact on the relationship.
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These include being physically inactive, overweight, drinking alcohol, having a first pregnancy after age 30, not breastfeeding, and taking some forms of hormonal birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms.
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" She dislikes the euphemism "the change" for menopause because it is "a bland word that holds none of the distress and despair of endless hot flashes, depression, brain fog and eradication of libido.
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But in a cruel twist of fate, I soon started getting the first symptoms of menopause — body changes, night sweats, and mood swings — as the hormones began to leave my body in droves.
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Personal Health 'Menopause-related cognitive impairment happens to women in their 40s and 50s, women in the prime of life who suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them,' an expert says.
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More Pets, Fewer Allergies The Brain Fog of Menopause How to Help Your New Pet Feel at Home Taking Surprise Medical Bills to Court Run Well, and Merry Christmas — if you are celebrating!
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They also linked menopause to the fits associated with uterine ("hysterical") suffocation, a disorder whose tradition was ancient in origin but that reached a new level of popularity in the Renaissance and later.
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Channel 4, a national television station in Britain, announced on Friday that it would offer its female employees flexible working arrangements, tailored work spaces and even paid leave if they experienced menopause symptoms.
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During follow-up for up to 212 years, women who had one pregnancy were 238% less likely to experience menopause before age 03, and the risk declined with subsequent pregnancies, the study found.
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With two pregnancies, women were 16% less likely to go through early menopause, after researchers accounted for the duration of exclusive breastfeeding, while the risk was 19% lower with four or more pregnancies.
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Older women, like the patient in this case, tend to be at higher risk for reasons that aren't entirely clear (one theory is that menopause can change the heart's response to stress hormones).
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In "Better Things," Sam's menopause is so powerful that it disrupts her environment: The cockpit of her plane lights on fire; the thermostat in her on-set trailer is stuck at 92 degrees.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Women with later menarche and later menopause are more likely to reach age 290 than those whose reproductive milestones come at earlier ages, suggests a new study.
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I realized I couldn't ask her about anything as personal as menopause, but I had to broach the topic of aging: If I had followed her this long, where were we going next?
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Most commonly, this loss of bone density occurs due to hormonal changes that accompany aging: lower estrogen levels in women post-menopause and decreasing testosterone levels in men over the age of 70.
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"Women going through the menopause are four times more likely to suffer from depression than women who are younger than 45," said Pinkerton, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Charlottesville, Virginia, and executive director of the North American Menopause Society Depression is not anxiety, bouts of sadness, low mood or mood swings but a mental disorder defined by the feeling of extreme sadness lasting for more than two weeks, often with no specific cause, and which interferes with everyday life, Pinkerton said.
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Most animals die very shortly after the end of their fertile years, but dolphins and orca whales, like humans, tend to live past their reproductive years (cool fact: female orca whales go through menopause).
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"Unlike in the West - where hysterectomy numbers spike post-menopause - in India, younger women are undergoing the procedure," said Narendra Gupta, a public health expert who campaigned for the government to conduct the survey.
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Gum disease and tooth loss are connected to a higher risk of early death in women past the age of menopause, a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds.
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"To date, we have not cleared or approved for marketing any energy-based devices to treat these symptoms or conditions, or any symptoms related to menopause, urinary incontinence, or sexual function," the letter states.
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According to co-founder Lea von Bidder, Ava's broader vision is to work for women across many stages of their lives, whether that's preventing pregnancy, trying to get pregnant, being pregnant or even menopause.
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One is targeted at women of child-bearing age who want to monitor their fertility levels; and another for women approaching menopause who wish to check whether their hormones are within the menopausal range.
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And if you suspect you might be going through menopause, do a quick check to see if you're experiencing any of the tell-tale signs: sleep shadows, hot flashes, elbow spasms, and vaginal dryness.
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Our hormones enable us to conquer various kinds of life changes that we experience, not only through an individual cycle, but also through puberty, reproductive maturity, pregnancy, the postpartum period and even in menopause.
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According to the press release, these devices and procedures may be appealing to women who are not candidates for FDA-approved therapies and seek alternative options to treat conditions such as dryness or menopause.
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Night sweats, hot flashes and frequent urination associated with menopause could cause women to wake up several times during the night, and symptoms such as frequent urination could be related to diabetes, she added.
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"In the 2015 North American Menopause Society review of non hormonal therapies for hot flashes, we state that acupuncture cannot be recommended for the treatment of hot flashes," Pinkerton told Reuters Health by email.
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As of now the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the North American Menopause Society are awaiting more comprehensive data before endorsing the procedure, Minkin says, noting that there is very little regulation.
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Adult women using the drug to induce menopause after uterine disorders are warned on the drug's adult label not to take an initial course longer than six months to avoid serious bone density loss.
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Rory, launched by Roman's parent company Ro, is a new "telehealth" service specializing in treating menopause and its myriad of symptoms, including thin eye lashes, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, chills, night sweats and insomnia.
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"It has been seen in a lot of studies, especially for hormonally driven breast cancers, but what's confusing is that when women are obese after menopause, they do have a higher risk," Ligibel said.
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More vitamin B6 and zinc in the diet were also tied to slightly later onset of menopause, while each additional average daily portion of rice or pasta was linked to onset 1.5 years earlier.
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Doctors are encouraged to discuss a broad range of factors that may increase risks, such as family history and ethnicity, as well as other conditions including metabolic syndrome, premature menopause and chronic kidney disease.
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Dyspareunia is a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy, a condition triggered by the loss of female hormone estrogen after menopause that the company estimates affect about 32 million women in the United States.
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Other risk factors for breast cancer, such as smoking, oral contraceptive use and whether women had gone through menopause didn't appear to alter the connection between drinking and breast malignancies, the study also found.
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Then there are medical conditions that can reduce heat tolerance, such as menopause, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, thyroid trouble and cancer of the pituitary gland, not to mention some drugs used to treat diseases.
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More than a decade later, hormone therapy is making a comeback for some women, as researchers have concluded that the risks to middle-aged women just starting the menopause were overhyped following those studies.
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It's just one of several studies at the conference looking at how pregnancy, female hormones, age of menarche and menopause, and even a woman's innate cognitive advantages might affect her risk for the condition.
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A drug that can slow the progression of advanced breast cancer has been shown for the first time to lengthen survival in women whose disease started before or during menopause, researchers reported on Saturday.
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Antidepressants and anti-seizure medications that are often prescribed for hot flashes during menopause can negatively affect orgasm, so consider the potential sexual side effects when deciding to start or stay on these medications.
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When women go through menopause, they can also experience changes in their body shape and metabolism as more fat gets stored around the organs rather than right under the skin, the study authors note.
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She imagined that midlife was a time of fulfillment and exploration for women and one in which men would have to go through their own menopause and make peace with diminished hopes for themselves.
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Until recently, it might have been tempting to dismiss these findings as a simple result of the fact that people before modernization did not live very long and that, therefore, few women experienced menopause.
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The first dissertation on menopause, titled "On the End of Menstruation as the Time for the Beginning of Various Diseases," was published in Latin in 1710 in what was then the kingdom of Prussia.
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Chemo for any cancer can make yeast infections, flare-ups of genital warts, and STI contraction more common, as well as artificially induce temporary-to-long-term menopause, which often affects libido and lubrication.
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Women in their early 210s with the highest intake of vitamin D and calcium from food sources may have a lower than average risk of starting menopause before age 22017, a recent study suggests.
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In her new book, " Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life " (Sarah Crichton Books), Steinke is doing it all over again, this time from the perspective of a postmenopausal woman—herself.
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While female orcas normally stop reproducing in their 30s and 40s, they can live for many decades following menopause, said the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.
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Faced with a demanding career, and armed with the knowledge that her mom went through early menopause, Libby decided to freeze her eggs in the hopes of improving her chances of having three kids someday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved vaginal laser treatments for what's known as vulvovaginal atrophy, a condition that often accompanies menopause and can include symptoms like vaginal dryness, painful intercourse and urinary incontinence.
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Women who have other symptoms associated with menopause, such as night sweats, hot flashes or other whole-body problems, may need to take estrogen treatments by a pill or skin patch, the patient resource notes.
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A young couple worries that "Flo" is a few days late after they have been sexually active, and a woman prepares for menopause by saying goodbye to "Flo," whom she has known for many years.
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" Glamour explains that Coleman's current suit is an appeal of the district court's initial ruling in the Dodd Institute's favor, which determined that "pre-menopause was not a condition protected from discrimination under the law.
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Those who are already experiencing dullness due to aging, which typically happens with the onset of menopause around the age of 50, can add an exfoliant to their regimen to help their skin look radiant.
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Insufficient sleep will exacerbate other issues associated with menopause including mood disturbance and weight gain, said Natalie Dautovich, assistant professor of counseling psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and Environmental Fellow at the National Sleep Foundation.
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"Women who reach menopause early should be screened for medical conditions such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes," said the lead author, Dr. Taulant Muka, a physician and postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
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" Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as "breast augmentation" and "menopause.
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For younger women, Gleason said, more recent research has found no cognitive harm or benefit to several forms of HRT if started within a few years of menopause, unless the woman has Type 2 diabetes.
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Anyway, Addyi's labeling expressly notes it is not approved for use by women whose low libido is caused by problems in their relationship, menopause, childbirth, medical issues, other medications they are taking or mental illness.
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This suggests that estrogen pills may be a bigger problem than alternative formulations, said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a researcher at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
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The disparity between state and federal recidivism rates may reflect what is sometimes called "criminal menopause": Men are most likely to commit violent crimes before age 24, with the likelihood falling as they get older.
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Another reason to not use the term premature menopause is that this condition can affect women in their teens and 20s and insinuating their ovaries are "old" is not just medically incorrect, it is insensitive.
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Earlier age of menopause and earlier age at first birth were both linked to a greater risk for cardiovascular disease, while a history of hysterectomy with removal of the ovaries more than doubled the risk.
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Even after these adjustments, the most frequent consumers of organic food had 76 percent fewer lymphomas, with 86 percent fewer non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, and a 34 percent reduction in breast cancers that develop after menopause.
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Whales have close-knit familiesAccording to Franks, the new research may reveal why orcas are one of only five known mammal species (including humans) that go through menopause and have a long post-reproductive lifespan.
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Sacklers's aggressive, and often transgressive, marketing techniques would radically remake the drug industry, contributing over the decades to the overprescription of drugs like Valium, menopause treatments, painkillers and antidepressants, ultimately resulting in untold health harms.
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As the ovaries curb production of the hormones estrogen and progesterone in the years leading up to menopause and afterward, women can experience symptoms ranging from irregular periods and vaginal dryness to mood swings and insomnia.
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