VIDEO: Researchers emphasize normalization of menopause

Menopause should not be treated as a problem to be solved. Rather, it should be normalized, according to an analysis published in the BMJ.

“The concept of normalizing menopause is not to make light of it,” Nanette Santoro, MD, professor and E. Stewart Taylor Chair of OB/GYN at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio. “It is a life passage that is inconvenient and bothersome at best for most women and can be actually very symptomatic for some. But that is part of what the experience is — it is simply a life passage.”

In this video interview, Santoro discusses how clinicians should approach menopause and how they should share this information with their patients.

Reference:

• Hickey M, et al. BMJ. 2022;doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-069369.