OBJECTIVES: To analyze the association between primary infertility and infertility type with the age of natural menopause. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study reviewing a subset of women from the Mayo Primary Infertility Cohort (…
OBJECTIVE: Traditional behavioral finance-which examines how cognitive biases, emotions, and context shape economic decision-making- often assumes cognitive stability, rationality, and consistent risk evaluation, based largely on male-domin…
OBJECTIVES: To challenge the perception that endometriosis uniformly regresses after menopause by presenting the case of repeated, pathology-confirmed symptomatic recurrences spanning two decades after menopause, and to emphasize key consid…
OBJECTIVES: To determine the risk of developing de novo carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis in women who underwent hysterectomy with bilateral ovarian conservation (H-OC) before reaching spontaneous menopause. …
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the burden of sleep disturbances on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental well-being in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with/without co-occurring vasomotor symptoms (VMS). METHODS: Perimenopausal…
OBJECTIVE: Reproductive history may help identify women at higher risk for experiencing menopausal symptoms. We hypothesized that gestation length and offspring birthweight for gestational age z-scores would be associated with menopausal sy…
OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether women with and without a history of endometriosis experience menopause differently, in terms of their satisfaction with quality of life. METHODS: This study was conduc…
OBJECTIVES: To summarize the literature on the rediscovery and clinical exploration of the fourth natural estrogen estetrol (E4), more than 100 years after the discovery of estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and estriol (E3). METHODS: Literatur…
Menopause, defined by the cessation of menstrual cycles after 12 months of amenorrhea not due to other causes, is associated with significant hormonal changes, primarily a decrease in estrogen, androgen, and progesterone levels. This review…
OBJECTIVES: To better understand whether history of infertility is associated with anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels later in life, outside of reproduction. METHODS: Among 1,758 premenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study II with mea…
IMPORTANCE AND OBJECTIVE: Postmenopausal endometriosis is a complex condition that challenges the conventional belief that endometriosis resolves with menopause. Despite the cessation of menstruation, a subset of women continues to experien…
From the NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY. Received May 23, 2023; revised and accepted May 24, 2023. Funding/support: None reported. Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported. Address correspondence to: Steven R. Goldste…
ObjectiveWe examined the long-term effects of premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy (PBO) with or without concurrent or preceding hysterectomy on physical and cognitive function and on odds of chronic conditions.MethodsWe enrolled 274 women …
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the risk factors for intrauterine device (IUD) embedment in postmenopausal women. METHODS: A total of 731 women who underwent hysteroscopy for IUD removal from January 2019 to December 2021 were inclu…
OBJECTIVE: To identify the optimal triage procedure for endometrial biopsies in postmenopausal women. METHODS: The clinical information of 470 postmenopausal women with endometrial biopsy results and postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) and/or tr…
OBJECTIVE: Expanding access to legal cannabis has dovetailed with increased interest in medical cannabis (MC) use; however, there is a paucity of research examining MC use to alleviate menopause-related symptoms. This survey study assessed …
OBJECTIVES: Evaluate the proportion of justified bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) at hysterectomy, based on pathologic diagnosis, and determine prevalence of avoidable BSO based on pre- and intraoperative considerations and pathologic …
OBJECTIVE: The incidence of postmenopausal endometrial cancer (EC) is rising, and the uterine microbiota has recently been suggested to be an etiology of EC. However, the differences in microbiota profiles in paired EC and the adjacent non-…
OBJECTIVE: To understand prevalence, severity, impact, and treatment of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, using cross-sectional survey data. METHODS: This online, two-part survey was conducted in East Asia among women 40-65 yea…
OBJECTIVE: To determine prevalence and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) in postmenopausal women in Europe, the US, and Japan, and among subgroups of women not taking hormone therapy (HT).…
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the effect of midwifery-oriented group counseling based on the GATHER model on the quality of life of women during the transition to menopause. METHODS: This randomized controlled clinical trial was…
OBJECTIVE: The incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is higher in women, and peaks around the age of menopause. Therefore, we investigated whether bilateral oophorectomy is associated with an increased risk of severe CTS. METHODS: We i…
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the influence of hysterectomy on depression using a national sample cohort from South Korea. METHODS: We extracted data entered into the Korean Health Insurance data based form 2002 through 2013 and clas…