Postmenopause

Risk factors for postmenopausal depressive symptoms included being unpartnered, consuming alcohol, requiring chronic medication and having many children, according to results of a study from researchers in Turkey.

Adjunctive ganaxolone appeared to reduce persistent depression among postmenopausal women, according to results of an open-label, uncontrolled pilot study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Aerobic exercise may have little or no part in parasympathetic BP control among fit postmenopausal women, according to research published in Hypertension.

Postmenopausal women who consumed 58 g to 74 g of protein per day had a lower risk for atrial fibrillation compared with those consuming less protein, according to data presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

The Endocrine Society updated its osteoporosis clinical practice guideline to include recommendations for romosozumab, noting that the monthly injection therapy is an “effective option” for postmenopausal women at high risk for fracture, according to a society press release.

Longer sitting bout duration conferred worse parameters of CVD risk in women, but the effect on blood sugar/glucose was most pronounced in Hispanic women, according to a study published in a Go Red for Women-focused issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.

In a large prospective cohort of postmenopausal women, those who had ever had hypothyroidism — whether treated with levothyroxine or not — were less likely to develop breast cancer than those without hypothyroidism, and the relationship was more pronounced among those who did not also use menopausal hormone therapy, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Prolonged use of menopausal hormone therapy is associated with high skeletal muscle mass and a low prevalence of sarcopenia among postmenopausal women, according to findings published in Menopause.

Among healthy, postmenopausal women, hormone therapy with oral conjugated equine estrogens — compared with transdermal estradiol or no hormone therapy — may slow the adverse effects of heart fat accumulation on carotid intima-media thickness , according to an analysis of the KEEPS study published in Menopause.

A higher number of physiologically measured hot flashes among a small cohort of postmenopausal women was associated with worse performance on verbal and logical memory tests, according to findings published in Menopause.