Bothersome menopausal symptoms amongst postmenopausal Iranian women

Climacteric : the Journal of the International Menopause Society
E FooladiSusan R Davis

Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine the impact of menopause on middle-eastern women. This was a cross-sectional study of 1520 women, aged 40-64 years, living in Sari, Northern Iran, recruited by multistage cluster sampling between October 2016 and April 2017. All women completed the Menopause Quality of Life Questionnaire (MENQOL) and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Of all the women, 54.5% were perimenopausal or postmenopausal. The prevalences of any vasomotor symptom (VMS) and moderate-severely bothersome VMS were greatest for postmenopausal women aged <55 years (66.4%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 59.9-72.3% and 13.5%, 95% CI 9.6-18.6%, respectively). Having moderate-severe VMS was associated with moderate-severe depressive symptoms (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.9; 95% CI 1.6-5.2; p < 0.001). Symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) were reported by 41.1% (95% CI 37.4-45.0%) of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, with 22.9% (95% CI 19.8-26.3%) reporting their symptoms as moderate-severely bothersome. In women with moderate-severe VMS, the proportion with both moderate-severe depressive symptoms and moderate-severe VVA symptoms (12.1%) was four times that in women with no or mild VMS (3.3%) (p < 0.001). One in seve...Continue Reading

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Mar 18, 2020·Climacteric : the Journal of the International Menopause Society·C M OldraA P Vieira
Jul 4, 2019·Menopause : the Journal of the North American Menopause Society·Marzieh AziziSusan R Davis
Oct 2, 2020·Menopause : the Journal of the North American Menopause Society·Ensieh FooladiSusan R Davis
Jun 25, 2020·Menopause : the Journal of the North American Menopause Society·Claudio N Soares
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