Menopause News
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Early Menopause May Raise a Woman's Odds for Dementia
New research indicates women who enter menopause early may be more likely to develop dementia later in life.
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Insomnia Drug Might Also Ease Menopause Night Sweats
A small study suggests a drug used for sleep disorders might offer women relief from night sweats.
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Study Links Muscle Mass to Severity of Hot Flashes in Women
A new study investigated the association between body composition -- including fat and muscle -- and hot flashes and other menopause symptoms.
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Inactive Lifestyles Lead to More Frequent, Severe Hot Flashes: Study
A new study finds inactive lifestyles can lead to more frequent, severe hot flashes, among other negative health effects of not moving enough.
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More Women Using Marijuana Products to Help With Menopause
However, there is little to no research has proven that pot effectively treats menopause-related symptoms.
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Menopause Can Make Workplace Tougher for Women
Women with a higher number of menopause symptoms had poorer work performance, according to the authors of the study published online recently in Menopause, journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
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More Women Trying Pot to Manage Menopause
THC helps lower body temperature, which can help with hot flashes. Pot’s mellowing effects may help settle your mood and improve sleep, but everyone’s reaction may differ.
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Tough Menopause May Signal Future Heart Woes
This study didn't prove a cause-and-effect relationship, it only showed an association between menopausal symptoms and stroke and other heart and blood vessel diseases
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Pregnancy, Breastfeeding May Guard Against Early Menopause
The risk was lowest among those who breast-fed exclusively, meaning the baby received breast milk only -- no liquids or solid foods. Early menopause is the end of menstruation before age 45, the study authors said.
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Less Sex Could Mean Earlier Menopause
British researchers who tracked the sex lives and menopausal status of nearly 3,000 American women for a decade found that those who had less sex were more likely to begin menopause at an earlier age.
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How Does Early Menopause Affect a Woman's Heart?
Researchers analyzed data from more than 300,000 women who were part of 15 studies around the world, and found that women who reached menopause before age 50 were more likely to have a nonfatal heart problem, such as a heart attack, angina or stroke.
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Study Links Menopausal Night Sweats to Impaired Thinking
To their surprise, the investigators found that more frequent night sweats were associated with longer sleep -- and that the longer women slept, the more their attention and thinking skills ("cognition") decreased.
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Surgical Procedure Aims to Delay Menopause
Ten British women have undergone a first-of-a-kind surgery that could delay menopause by up to 20 years.
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Mom Plays Role in Your Age at Menopause, Longevity
Family history appears to be the most important factor in the timing of menopause, researchers say. And later menopause appears to be associated with slower aging.
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Acupuncture Could Help Ease Menopausal Symptoms
Compared with women who didn't get acupuncture, those who did had significant reductions in hot flashes, a recent study found.
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Incontinence Drug May Help Ease Severe Hot Flashes
Oxybutynin, a drug widely used to treat urinary incontinence caused by an overactive bladder, helps treat hot flashes in breast cancer survivors and women who did not have breast cancer but who were bothered by frequent or severe menopausal symptoms, new research shows.
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An Abusive Partner May Worsen Menopause Symptoms
Women who are emotionally tormented by a spouse or partner may suffer from more night sweats, painful sex and hot flashes when their periods stop, researchers say.
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Exercise Won't Speed, Slow Menopause, Study Finds
An analysis of data from more than 107,000 U.S. women between the ages of 25 and 42 who were followed for 20 years found no association between physical activity at any age and early menopause.
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Scientists Get Closer to Origins of Hot Flashes
Scientists have found that a neuron present in the brains of both mice and humans causes hot flashes when it's stimulated in mice.
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What Foods Can Hasten, or Delay, Menopause?
For the study, the researchers surveyed a group of English, Scottish and Welsh women to establish their nutritional patterns with respect to 217 specific foods. All of the women were aged 40 to 65, and none were told to alter their eating patterns.
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As Menopause Symptoms Get Worse, Heart At Risk
In all stages of menopause, artery stiffening and dysfunction of blood vessels were each associated with more frequent and severe menopause symptoms among women, as well as a lower quality of life.
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Older At Menopause, Better Memory Later?
The research showed that a woman entering menopause 10 years later than her peers was able to recall one extra word on a 15-word test for every year as she grew older.
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Tackling Menopausal Sleep Problems From All Angles
Some hopeful news also emerged from the study: Many women with restless sleep and insomnia during menopause did not have sleep problems before or after menopause.
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Menopause May Worsen Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
While rheumatoid arthritis rates in women are three times higher than in men, and women with RA have more severe physical decline and disability, sex-based differences in RA are poorly understood, the researchers said.
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Hormone Therapy May Aid Menopausal Depression
Surprisingly, for women with a past history of major depression -- which is a known risk factor for future depression -- hormone therapy didn't appear to lessen the risk of depressive symptoms.
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