Effects of nutritional interventions on the severity of depressive and anxiety symptoms of women in the menopausal transition and menopause: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression
Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effect of nutritional interventions on the severity of depressive (DS) and anxiety (AS) symptoms in women during the menopausal transition...
Conclusion: Nutritional interventions are promising tools for the management of mood/anxiety symptoms in women during the menopausal transition and in postmenopausal years. Because of significant heterogeneity and risk of bias among studies, the actual effect of different approaches is still unclear.
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Effects of mixed heavy metals on kidney function in premenopausal and postmenopausal women
2017), multivariate linear regression models, marginal effects, and weighted quantile sum regression, we assessed the associations between single heavy metals and their mixtures and eGFR among 5,372 women. Results Risks...
Conclusion: Postmenopausal women were more influenced by mixed heavy metals' effects on kidney function than premenopausal women. Early interventions (eg, water filtering, heavy metal yearly screening) in women, especially postmenopausal women, are needed to reduce the incidence of chronic kidney disease.
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Menopausal Status Contributes to Overall Survival in Endometrial Cancer Patients
Source : https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/2/451
Endometrial cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy in developed countries that occurs predominantly in postmenopausal women. The primary objective of our research was to investigate whether menopause...
Conclusion: We have demonstrated here that some of the basic clinical variables related to men- strual status, such as time from last menstruation or postoperative FSH concentration, may contribute to overall survival in endometrial cancer patients.
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Relationship between years since menopause and lipid variation in postmenopausal women: A cross-sectional study
's Hospital of Zhejiang University in China between 2015 and 2022. Each participant was interviewed using questionnaires regarding sociodemographic and reproductive data. Anthropometric measurements, lipid profiles, and reproductive hormone levels...
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that a longer duration since menopause is associated with alterations of the lipid profile (lower HLD-C and higher LDL-C levels) in postmenopausal women. However, more studies, especially large prospective studies, are needed to explore this relationship and further reveal the underlying mechanisms.
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Postmenopausal hormone therapy and mortality before and after the Women's Health Initiative study - Scientific Reports
Source : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-27731-z
Weighing risks and benefits of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) has proven a balancing act. We aimed to investigate the association between HT and mortality before and after the 2002 publication...
Discussion: We found a decreased systemic HT prevalence and an increased mortality risk for systemic HT users in both study populations in the wake of the 2002 WHI publication with the most pronounced tendency presented in the singleton population. The findings suggest an alteration in the HT user profile after 2002 with a different pattern of...
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