Symptoms of the menopause

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-32

  Bruce, Deborah ^a   Rymer, Janice ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

psychological symptoms; quality of life; sexuality; urogenital symptoms; vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ARTHRALGIA; ASTHENIA; BONE PAIN; BREAST TENDERNESS; DEPRESSION; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSE; MENORRHAGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AGING; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 58249088691     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.10.002     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. World Health Organization. Research on the menopause in the 1990's. Report of a WHO Scientific Group (1998), WHO, Geneva
2. Rymer J., and Morris E.P. Extracts from 'clinical evidence'. Menopausal symptoms. BMJ 321 (2000) 1516-1519
3. Simoni M., Gromoll J., and Neischlag E. The follicle-stimulating hormone receptor: biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, and pathophysiology. Endocr Rev 18 (1997) 739-773
4. Findlay J.K., and Drummond A.E. Regulation of the FSH receptor in the ovary. Trends Endocrinol Metab 10 (1999) 183-188
5. Macklon N.S., and Fauser B.C. Aspects of ovarian follicle development throughout life. Horm Res 52 (1999) 161-170
6. Burger H.G. Evidence for a negative feedback role of inhibin in FSH regulation in women. Hum Reprod 8 Suppl. 2 (1993) 129-132
7. MacNaughton J., Banagh M., and McCloud P. Age-related changes in follicular stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone, estradiol and immunoreactive inhibin in women of reproductive age. Clin Endocrinol 36 (1992) 339-345
8. Erickson G.F., and Shimasaki S. The physiology of folliculogenesis: the role of novel growth factors. Fertil Steril 76 (2001) 943-949
9. O'Connor K.A., Holman D.J., and Wood J.W. Menstrual cycle variability and the perimenopause. Am J Hum Biol 13 (2001) 465-478
10. Klein N.A., Battaglia D.E., Fujumonti V.Y., et al. Reproductive aging: accelerated ovarian follicular development associated with a monotrophic follicle-stimulating hormone rise in normal older women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 81 (1996) 1038-1045
11. Danforth D.R., Arbogast M.S., Mroueh J., et al. Dimeric inhibin: a direct marker of ovarian aging. Fertil Steril 70 (1998) 119-123
12. Belchetz P.E. Hormonal treatment of postmenopausal women. N Engl J Med 330 (1994) 1062-1071
13. Longcope C., Kato T., and Horton R. Conversion of blood androgens in normal adult women. J Clin Invest 48 (1969) 2191
14. Woods N.F., Mitchell E.S., Tao Y., et al. Polymorphisms in the estrogen synthesis and metabolism pathways and symptoms during the menopausal transition: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study. Menopause 13 (2006) 902-910
15. Schilling C., Gallicchio L., Miller S.R., et al. Genetic polymorphisms, hormone levels, and hot flashes in midlife women. Maturitas 57 (2007) 120-131
16. Bachmann G.A. Menopausal vasomotor symptoms: a review of causes, effects and evidence-based treatment options. J Reprod Med 50 (2005) 155-165
17. Bachmann G.A. Vasomotor flushes in menopausal women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 180 (1999) S312-S316
18. Meldrum D.R., Erlik Y., Lu J.K., et al. Objectively recorded hot flushes in patients with pituitary insufficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 52 (1981) 684-688
19. Rebar R.W., and Spitzer I.B. The physiology and measurement of hot flushes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 156 (1987) 1284-1288
20. Freedman R.R. Physiology of hot flashes. Am J Hum Biol 13 (2001) 453-464
21. Sturdee D.W., and Reece B.L. Thermography of menopausal hot flushes. Maturitas 1 (1979) 201-205
22. Sturdee D.W., Wilson K.A., Pipili E., et al. Physiological aspects of the menopausal hot flush. BMJ 2 (1978) 79-80
23. Appling S., Paez K., and Allen J. Ethnicity and vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women. J Womens Health 16 (2007) 1130-1138
24. Sievert L.L., Morrison L., Brown D.E., et al. Vasomotor symptoms among Japanese-American and European-American women living in Hilo, Hawaii. Menopause 14 (2007) 261-269
25. Li C, Borgfeldt C, Samsioe G, et al. Background factors influencing somatic and psychological symptoms in middle-age women with different hormonal status. A population-based study of Swedish women. Maturitas 52: 306-318.
26. Thurston R.C., Sowers M.R., Chang Y., et al. Adiposity and reporting of vasomotor symptoms among midlife women: the study of women's health across the nation. Am J Epidemiol 167 (2008) 78-85
27. Milsom I., and Molander U. Urogenital ageing. J Br Meno Soc (1998) 151-156
28. Notelovitz M. Urogenital aging: solutions in clinical practice. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 59 Suppl. 9 (1997)
29. Chen G.D., Oliver R.H., Leung B.S., et al. Estrogen receptor alpha and beta expression in the vaginal walls and uterosacral ligaments of premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Fertil Steril 71 (1999) 1099-1102
30. Pandit L., and Ouslander J.G. Postmenopausal vaginal atrophy and atrophic vaginitis. Am J Med Sci 314 (1997) 228-231
31. Melis G.B., Ibba M.T., Steri B., et al. Role of pH as a regulator of vaginal physiological environment. Minerva Ginecol 52 (2000) 111-121
32. Willhite L.A., and O'Connell M.B. Urogenital atrophy: prevention and treatment. Pharmacotherapy 21 (2001) 464-480
33. Hextall A. Oestrogens and lower urinary tract function. Maturitas 36 (2000) 83-92
34. Falconer C., Ekman-Ordeberg G., Ulmsten U., et al. Changes in paraurethral connective tissue at menopause are counteracted by estrogen. Maturitas 24 (1996) 197-204
35. Keane D.P., and O'Sullivan S. Urinary incontinence: anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology. Best Prac Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 14 (2000) 207-226
36. Rosano G.M., Rillo M., Leonardo F., et al. Palpitations: what is the mechanism, and when should we treat them?. Int J Fertil Womens Med 42 (1997) 94-100
37. Rosano G.M., Leonardo F., Dicandia C., et al. Acute electrophysiologic effect of estradiol 17beta in menopausal women. Am J Cardiol 86 (2000) 1385-1387 A5-A6
38. Conde D.M., Pinto-Neto A.M., Santos-Sá D., et al. Factors associated with quality of life in a cohort of postmenopausal women. Gynecol Endocrinol 22 (2006) 441-446
39. Johnson C.J. Headache in women. Prim Care 31 (2004) 417-428 vii
40. Cairns B.E. The influence of gender and sex steroids on craniofacial nociception. Headache 47 (2007) 319-324
41. Misakian A.L., Langer R.D., Bensenor I.M., et al. Postmenopausal hormone therapy and migraine headache. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12 (2003) 1027-1036
42. Aegidius K.L., Zwart J.A., Hagen K., et al. Hormone replacement therapy and headache prevalence in postmenopausal women. The Head-HUNT study. Eur J Neurol 14 (2007) 73-78
43. Sievert L.L., and Goode-Null S.K. Musculoskeletal pain among women of menopausal age in Puebla, Mexico. J Cross Cult Gerontol 20 (2005) 127-140
44. Ghorayeb I., Bioulac B., Scribans C., et al. Perceived severity of restless legs syndrome across the female life cycle. Sleep Med (2007)
45. Krishnan V., and Collop N.A. Gender differences in sleep disorders. Curr Opin Pulm Med 12 (2006) 383-389
46. Freedman R.R., and Roehrs T.A. Sleep disturbance in menopause. Menopause 14 (2007) 826-829
47. Montgomery J., Appleby L., and Brincat M.P. Effect of oestrogen and testosterone implants on psychological disorders in the climacteric. Lancet 1 (1987) 297-299
48. Archer J.S. Relationship between estrogen, serotonin and depression. Menopause 6 (1999) 71-78
49. Yilmaz H., Erkin E., Mavioglu H., et al. Effects of oestrogen replacement therapy on pattern reversal visual evoked potentials. Eur J Neurol 7 (2000) 217-221
50. Zweifel J.E., and O'Brien W.H. A meta-analysis of the effect of hormone replacement therapy upon depressed mood. Psychoneuroendocrinology 22 (1997) 189-212
51. LeBlanc E.S., Janowsky J., Chan B.K., et al. Hormone replacement therapy and cognition: systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 285 (2001) 1489-1499
52. Pearce E.N. Thyroid dysfunction in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Menopause Int 13 (2007) 8-13
53. Everitt B.J., and Herbert J. The effects of implanting testosterone propionate in the central nervous system on the sexual behavior on the female rhesus monkey. Brain Res 86 (1975) 109-120
54. Gelfand M.M. Sexuality among older women. J Womens Health Gend Based Med 9 Suppl. 20 (2000)
55. MacLennan A., Lester S., and Moore V. Oral estrogen replacement therapy versus placebo for hot flushes: a systematic review. Climacteric 4 (2001) 58-74