Menopause News

CHICAGO — Voice and respiratory changes can impact women’s health during menopause and hormone therapy plays a role in helping or worsening these changes, according to a speaker at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

CHICAGO — Hormone therapy is beneficial for some women beyond age 65 years to treat ongoing menopausal symptoms that affect their quality of life, according to research reported at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

CHICAGO — Exposure to trauma was tied to increased measures of inflammation and neuronal death for Black women and accelerated brain age indicators regardless of race and ethnicity, researchers reported.

A lack of menopause education for health care professionals has had a direct impact on midlife women seeking care, and a new initiative from The Menopause Society aims to bridge a wide gap in knowledge and training.

Vaginal estrogen, vaginal dehydroepiandrosterone, oral ospemifene and vaginal moisturizers result in short-term improvements in vaginal atrophy symptoms, known as genitourinary syndrome of menopause, but more long-term data are needed.

Aspects of PTSD across several dimensions were associated with menopause-related health in midlife women veterans such as urinary and vasomotor symptoms, vasomotor symptom interference and sexual dysfunction, researchers reported.

Among postmenopausal women with sexual dysfunction, motivational interviewing decreased sexual dysfunction while increasing sexual quality of life and sexual self-efficacy, researchers reported.

Peri- and postmenopausal women with HPV have lower health-related quality of life compared with premenopausal counterparts, with the strongest differences observed within the sexuality domain, researchers reported.

Postmenopausal women with a history of hormone therapy use were biologically younger compared with never-using counterparts, regardless of socioeconomic background, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Despite lack of evidence, midlife women report using cannabis to manage symptoms overlapping with menopause including insomnia, anxiety, mood and musculoskeletal pain, according to results of two studies.