Hot flashes, the havoc they can wreak on quality of life, and new ways to extinguish these challenging vasomotor symptoms took center stage at the 2023 annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society.
With a theme of Midlife Women’s Health in the Era of Precision Medicine, the four-day meeting was held at the Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia from Sept. 27 to 30, 2023. It featured up-to-date clinical information on treatment and prevention strategies for perimenopausal, menopausal, and postmenopausal women.
Click above to find our post-conference wrap-up report.
Impact of Estrogens on Resting Energy Expenditure: a Systematic Review
Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37544655/
The fear of weight gain is one of the main reasons for women not to initiate or to early discontinue hormonal contraception or menopausal hormone therapy. Resting energy expenditure is...
It should be emphasized that estrogens have an anorexigenic effect and thus prevent increased EI from compensating for increased REE. Together with this fact, our results suggest that the energy balance changes in a negative direction under the influence of estrogens. Thus, the widespread fear of weight gain solely as a result of taking HC or...
Unexpected Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated With MenoFit: A Synbiotic Menopause Supplement
h 1 week of jaundice and abnormal liver biochemical tests in the absence of other risk factors and negative comprehensive workup for known etiologies of liver disease....
In the case described, given the significant improvement in liver tests on discontinuing the supplement and initiating steroids, the diagnosis of DILI was established. However, given the lack of long-term follow-up and lack of demonstration of normalization of liver tests, a suspicion of chronic DILI could not be ruled out.
Number of Vaginal Lactobacilli in Postmenopausal Women With Vaginal Atrophy Before and After Treatment With Erbium-YAG Laser: a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial
Source : https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-023-02590-y
Primary objective To evaluate the effect of erbium-YAG laser on the number of vaginal lactobacilli in postmenopausal women. Secondary objectives To evaluate the effect of erbium-YAG laser on vaginal atrophy...
This study showed an improvement in vaginal lactobacilli grading after vaginal laser treatment. However, the difference in vaginal lactobacilli grading after treatment in both groups was not statistically significant.
The theme of the 2023 annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society, “Midlife Women’s Health in the Era of Precision Medicine,” set the tone for innovation.
The four-day program, which is taking place at the Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, brought together more than 1,400 people from all over the world to discuss the latest thinking on addressing the symptoms of menopause and preventing or treating the health risks associated with advancing age in postmenopausal women.
Click above for a summary of some presentations that caught our eye at the conference.


