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Factors Influencing Skin Aging and the Important Role of Estrogens and Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs)

Factors Influencing Skin Aging and the Important Role of Estrogens and Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs)

Source : https://www.dovepress.com/factors-influencing-skin-aging-and-the-important-role-of-estrogens-and-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-CCID

For many years, it has been recognized that estrogens are important in the maintenance of human skin. Women seek cosmetic and medical treatments to improve dermal health and physical characteristics...


Discussion: Estrogens are paramount in maintaining dermal health and have many anti-aging characteristics by binding to estrogen receptors in the skin. Especially where skin collagen and elastin profiles are known to follow 17β-estradiol levels during aging and at/after menopause.

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Limited evidence of a threshold effect for increasing adiposity on risk of symptoms at midlife - PubMed

Limited evidence of a threshold effect for increasing adiposity on risk of symptoms at midlife - PubMed

Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36166728/

doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000002074. Online ahead of print. 1 From the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. 2 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA....


Conclusion: Even at very high levels of BMI, likelihood of urinary incontinence and shortness of breath increases with BMI. In contrast, likelihood of aches/stiffness has a nonlinear relationship with BMI, increasing to a threshold level.

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The Potential Role of Serum IGF-1 and Leptin as Biomarkers: Towards Screening for and Diagnosing Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

The Potential Role of Serum IGF-1 and Leptin as Biomarkers: Towards Screening for and Diagnosing Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

Source : https://www.dovepress.com/the-potential-role-of-serum-igf-1-and-leptin-as-biomarkers-towards-scr-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JIR

Postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMOP) is a common type of osteoporosis (OP), which is a condition affecting approximately 33% women over 60yr in China. Estrogen is an essential element in the bone...


Conclusion: IFG-1 and leptin seem to be key biomarker associated with PMOP in this study. The high prevalence of PMOP makes these cytokines with highly attractive in clinical practice. Although we did not perform longitudinal assessments, IGF-1 and leptin might bear the potential of becoming a very useful screening test also for clinical...

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Surgical Menopause and Bilateral Oophorectomy: Effect of Estrogen-Progesterone and Testosterone Replacement Therapy on Psychological Well-being and Sexual Functioning; A Systematic Literature Review

Source : https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(22)01769-6/fulltext

Menopause can cause a variety of vasomotor, psychological, and sexual symptoms., , After a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at premenopausal age, eg, for reducing ovarian cancer risk or for removing benign disease,...


Conclusion: Independent randomized controlled clinical trials investigating the effects of estrogen-progesterone and testosterone on psychological and sexual symptoms after surgical menopause are needed.

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Early menopause and epigenetic biomarkers of ageing

Source : https://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(22)00710-6/fulltext

We read with interest Professor Laven's recent Countercurrent contribution stating that early menopause is a result of premature general ageing (Laven, 2022). In our opinion, his position is anything but...


Discussion: Currently available epigenetic clocks express the epigenetic age of individuals in contrast to their chronological age. These epigenetic biomarkers of ageing have proven themselves as compelling predictors of age-related conditions such as the cardiovascular disease.

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