Menopause News

Among patients with breast cancer in China, those who underwent adjuvant endocrine therapy had more prevalent and more severe menopausal symptoms, according to data published in Menopause.

This year, women’s health care providers have faced challenges that developed throughout the year, from the lingering COVID-19 pandemic to a changing legal landscape.

Among postmenopausal women living in Brazil, lower appendicular lean mass was independently associated with low bone mass, according to findings of a cross-sectional study published in Menopause.

Women younger than 40 years had limited knowledge of menopause, results from an online survey showed. The results also showed that women in different age groups had different approaches to learning about menopause.

Foot massages were found to decrease sleep disturbances, fatigue and anxiety symptoms during menopause, according to a study published in Menopause earlier this year.

Short-term time-restricted eating resulted in no changes in sex steroid levels but was associated with a decrease in dehydroepiandrosterone for premenopausal and postmenopausal women with obesity, according to study data.

A pilot study published in Menopause highlighted racial disparities in the acceptance of systemic and local hormone therapy in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Postmenopausal women with moderate to severe genitourinary syndrome experienced small but significant increases in serum estradiol after using vaginal estradiol tablets for 12 weeks, according to a post hoc analysis in JAMA Network Open.

Levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and other serum components that indicate CVD risk increased for women in Japan who underwent menopause in the past 15 years, according to longitudinal data published in Menopause.

The placebo effect may play a role in the results of randomized controlled trials investigating medications for vasomotor symptoms, according to a meta-analysis published in Menopause.