Climacteric symptoms in an unselected sample of Swedish women

Hammar, Mats; Berg, Göran; Fåhraeus, Lars; Larsson‐Cohn, Ulf

doi:10.1016/0378-5122(84)90007-0

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“…Our response rate of over 70% in both questionnaires, of which we analyzed 70% after omitting answers with inconsistent results, is in accordance with other previous Swedish questionnaire studies (1,3,31). The method to ask for HT use in several ways and to exclude the women who answered inconsistently is a way to strengthen the study by increasing its internal validity.…”

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Attitudes towards the menopause and hormone therapy over the turn of the century

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Objective: To assess attitudes and beliefs about the menopausal transition in a population of peri- and postmenopausal women, and if these attitudes differed before and after publication of studies on risks and benefits with hormone therapy (HT). Material and methods: In 1999 and 2003 all women aged 53 and 54 years in the community of Linköping, Sweden, were sent a questionnaire about use of HT, menopausal status and attitudes regarding menopause and HT. Results: Most women regarded menopause as a natural process characterized by both hormonal deficiency and aging and these views did not differ between 1999 and 2003. A majority of women thought that significant climacteric symptoms were a good reason to use HT, but not that women without symptoms should use HT. The fraction of women who supported HT use was, however, significantly lower in 2003 than in 1999. Most women agreed that menopause leads to increased freedom and that it is a relief not to have to think about contraception and pregnancies. Conclusions: Most Swedish women had a mainly biological view on menopause but nevertheless they thought that only women with climacteric symptoms should use HT. Women’s attitudes towards HT have changed after recent reports on risks from long-term use of HT whereas the attitudes towards the menopausal transition were stable. Other factors than attitudes towards menopause affect women’s actual use of HT. Probably women’s and health care provider’s apprehension of the risk-benefit balance of HT use is one such factor.Original publication: Lotta Lindh-Åstrand, Jan Brynhildsen, Mikael Hoffmann, Susanne Liffner and Mats Hammar, Attitudes towards the menopause and hormone therapy over the turn of the century, 2007, Maturitas, (56), 1, 12-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2006.05.002. Copyright: Elsevier B.V., http://www.elsevier.com

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“…Vasomotor symptoms like hot flushes and sweating, local vaginal discomfort and urinary discomfort are classically associated with menopause (1,2). The use of estrogen combined with progestagens, hormone therapy (HT), has increased rapidly during the past twenty years.…”

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“…Apart from hot flushes and night sweats, vaginal dryness and dyspareunia are the only symptoms that have been proven to be associated with the endocrine changes around the menopause [1][2][3][4].…”

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“…According to both cross sectional and prospective studies, 50-75% of women in the western world report hot flushes and sweating when going through the menopause [1][2][3].…”

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“…Hot flushes can persist for many years; about 20% of women are still troubled by hot flushes 10 to 20 years after the menopause [1,5]. In line with these results, Barnabei et al (2002) analysed data from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study and found that almost 20% of women aged 70-74 years reported very frequent or frequent hot flushes [6] while Rödström et al (2002) reported a lower number, that only 9% of the 72-year old women were troubled by hot flushes [7].…”

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Hot flushes still occur in a population of 85-year-old Swedish women

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Results: About 16% (n=29) of the women experienced hot flushes during the day and/or during the night and 6.5% (n=12) of the women were currently using hormone therapy (HT).Almost 1/10 (n =17) out of all responding women were very to moderately distressed by their hot flushes. Discussion:Our results confirm and extend previous knowledge based on studies of younger postmenopausal women in showing that menopausal symptoms still occur in elderly women.We found that while the prevalence of menopausal symptoms decreases with age, these symptoms are still experienced by some 85-year old women.

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Hamann‐Todd collection aging studies: Osteoporosis fracture syndrome

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Latimer

1989

American J Phys Anthropol

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The study presents a retrospective analysis of distal radius, proximal femur, vertebral, and sacral fractures that occurred in 938 Hamann-Todd Collection skeletons. Individuals included in the investigation were retrieved from dissecting room cadavers in Cleveland, Ohio, between the years 1910 and 1940. Demographic analysis showed that the mean ages at death for blacks and whites included in the study were 41.9 and 53.8 years, respectively. Evaluations of fracture repair status were made for all fractures that were identified. Observations that document side of involvement and unilateral/bilateral distribution were made for distal radius and hip fractures. It was found that the age-, sex-, and race-related fracture patterns which characterize the early 20th century Hamann-Todd sample strongly correspond in distribution and magnitude to those seen in modern American and European urban industrial communities. The distal radius, hip, vertebral, and sacral fractures which were identified in individuals over 60 years of age appear to be a primary result of skeletal fragility due to age progressive bone loss. However, it is suggested that the early onset and high frequency of distal radius fractures seen in climacteric Caucasian women may be more directly due to accidental falls initiated by a greater frequency, intensity, and duration of vasomotor disturbances which are known to accompanay estrogen withdrawal in perimenopausal white females.

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Climacteric symptoms in an unselected sample of Swedish women

Cited by 92 publications

References 5 publications

Attitudes towards the menopause and hormone therapy over the turn of the century

Attitudes towards the menopause and hormone therapy over the turn of the century

Hot flushes still occur in a population of 85-year-old Swedish women

Hamann‐Todd collection aging studies: Osteoporosis fracture syndrome

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