“…The literature search strategy identified 194 articles, of which 117 were excluded at various stages of the search, eventually producing a final selection of 19 articles (Fig. 1), five of which were related to menopausal symptoms [10][11][12][13][14], two related to genitourinary symptoms [15,16], five studies on psychological health or physical conditions [17][18][19][20][21] three on sexual health [22][23][24], and four on cardiovascular or metabolic problems [25][26][27][28]. Nine studies were crosssectional studies [12-17, 19, 22, 23] and ten were cohort studies [10,11,18,20,21,[24][25][26][27][28]; two Brazilian [11,22], two Australian [17,24] and the rest from USA.…”