Background: There has been a misperception that menopausal women automatically lose interest in sexual life. At menopause, women have low estrogen levels; the vagina becomes thinner with less lubrication resulting in discomfort and lack of sensation with dyspareunia. There was a lack of standardized scales to measure the severity of menopausal symptoms and their effect on the healthrelated quality of life (HRQoL). So, in the 1990s menopausal rating scale (MRS) was developed to measure the severity of these problems. The MRS scores will be correlated with sexuality among postmenopausal women in this study.
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