Menopause (New York, N.Y.)

OBJECTIVE: Traditional behavioral finance-which examines how cognitive biases, emotions, and context shape economic decision-making- often assumes cognitive stability, rationality, and consistent risk evaluation, based largely on male-domin…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the association between primary infertility and infertility type with the age of natural menopause. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study reviewing a subset of women from the Mayo Primary Infertility Cohort (…

OBJECTIVES: To challenge the perception that endometriosis uniformly regresses after menopause by presenting the case of repeated, pathology-confirmed symptomatic recurrences spanning two decades after menopause, and to emphasize key consid…

OBJECTIVES: To determine the risk of developing de novo carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis in women who underwent hysterectomy with bilateral ovarian conservation (H-OC) before reaching spontaneous menopause. …

OBJECTIVES: To quantify the burden of sleep disturbances on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental well-being in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with/without co-occurring vasomotor symptoms (VMS). METHODS: Perimenopausal…

OBJECTIVE: Reproductive history may help identify women at higher risk for experiencing menopausal symptoms. We hypothesized that gestation length and offspring birthweight for gestational age z-scores would be associated with menopausal sy…

OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether women with and without a history of endometriosis experience menopause differently, in terms of their satisfaction with quality of life. METHODS: This study was conduc…

OBJECTIVES: To summarize the literature on the rediscovery and clinical exploration of the fourth natural estrogen estetrol (E4), more than 100 years after the discovery of estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and estriol (E3). METHODS: Literatur…

Menopause, defined by the cessation of menstrual cycles after 12 months of amenorrhea not due to other causes, is associated with significant hormonal changes, primarily a decrease in estrogen, androgen, and progesterone levels. This review…

OBJECTIVES: To better understand whether history of infertility is associated with anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels later in life, outside of reproduction. METHODS: Among 1,758 premenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study II with mea…

IMPORTANCE AND OBJECTIVE: Postmenopausal endometriosis is a complex condition that challenges the conventional belief that endometriosis resolves with menopause. Despite the cessation of menstruation, a subset of women continues to experien…

From the NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY. Received May 23, 2023; revised and accepted May 24, 2023. Funding/support: None reported. Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported. Address correspondence to: Steven R. Goldste…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the risk factors for intrauterine device (IUD) embedment in postmenopausal women. METHODS: A total of 731 women who underwent hysteroscopy for IUD removal from January 2019 to December 2021 were inclu…

OBJECTIVE: To identify the optimal triage procedure for endometrial biopsies in postmenopausal women. METHODS: The clinical information of 470 postmenopausal women with endometrial biopsy results and postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) and/or tr…

OBJECTIVES: Evaluate the proportion of justified bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) at hysterectomy, based on pathologic diagnosis, and determine prevalence of avoidable BSO based on pre- and intraoperative considerations and pathologic …

OBJECTIVE: The incidence of postmenopausal endometrial cancer (EC) is rising, and the uterine microbiota has recently been suggested to be an etiology of EC. However, the differences in microbiota profiles in paired EC and the adjacent non-…

OBJECTIVE: To understand prevalence, severity, impact, and treatment of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, using cross-sectional survey data. METHODS: This online, two-part survey was conducted in East Asia among women 40-65 yea…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the effect of midwifery-oriented group counseling based on the GATHER model on the quality of life of women during the transition to menopause. METHODS: This randomized controlled clinical trial was…

OBJECTIVE: The incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is higher in women, and peaks around the age of menopause. Therefore, we investigated whether bilateral oophorectomy is associated with an increased risk of severe CTS. METHODS: We i…

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the influence of hysterectomy on depression using a national sample cohort from South Korea. METHODS: We extracted data entered into the Korean Health Insurance data based form 2002 through 2013 and clas…

1The Reading Hospital of Tower Health; Reading, PA 2Department of ObGyn. Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University; Philadelphia, PA. Address correspondence to: Xuezhi (Daniel) Jiang, MD, PhD, FACOG, NCMP, Associate Profe…

OBJECTIVE: To study bone mineral density (BMD) in women with and without pelvic deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) who underwent early bilateral oophorectomy (BO). METHODS: A case-control study was performed in 83 women who underwent ea…

The North American Menopause Society held the 2019 Pre-Meeting Symposium on September 25, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois, to review the current state of the science related to the physiology of the perimenopause and to address management of the…