Women's Midlife Health

Journal Notice

Women's Midlife Health will cease to be published by BMC as of 31st December 2023 and is closed to new submissions. BMC will continue to host an archive of all articles previously published in the journal and all articles published in Women's Midlife Health during its time with BMC will remain fully searchable via the BMC website.

Thematic Series: Structural Racism and Women in their Midlife

This series highlights the effects of structural racism on women in their midlife, and includes topics such as disparities in reproductive ageing and midlife health between Black and White women, the impact on incarcerated midlife women, and more.

Thematic Series: Disability in Midlife

This series highlights the conceptualization and burden of disability and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife and late adulthood.

Thematic Series: Stress in Midlife

This series highlights key questions confronting women and clinicians regarding stress and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife years.

Thematic Series: Contraception and Pregnancy in Midlife

This series highlights key questions facing women and clinicians regarding pregnancy and contraceptive choices.

Women’s midlife health: the unfinished research agenda

Authors: Sioban D. Harlow, Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Gita D. Mishra and Nancy Fugate Woods

Content type: Editorial 3 October 2023
Stressful life events during the perimenopause: longitudinal observations from the seattle midlife women’s health study

Authors: Annette Joan Thomas, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell, Kenneth C. Pike and Nancy Fugate Woods

Content type: Research 5 September 2023
Factors predicting age at menopause among Iranian women in the Bandare-Kong cohort study (a cross-sectional survey of PERSIAN cohort study)

Authors: Maryam Azizi Kutenaee, Sareh Dashti, Shideh Rafati, Mehrsa moannaie, Mojtaba Masoudi, Abdolazim Nejatizadeh, Mehdi Shahmoradi and Nasibeh Roozbeh

Content type: Research 29 August 2023
Factors associated with the CVD risk factors and body fat pattern of postmenopausal Hindu caste and Lodha tribal populations living in India: An exploratory study

Authors: Debasmita Kar and Subho Roy

Content type: Research 25 April 2023
Coping with singleness

Authors: Shakiba Pourasad Shahrak, Serge Brand and Ziba Taghizadeh

Content type: Research 21 February 2023

Most recent articles RSS

View all articles

Abdominal pain during the menopause transition and early postmenopause: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study

Authors: Nini G. L. Callan, Ellen S. Mitchell, Margaret M. Heitkemper and Nancy F. Woods

Content type: Research 2 August 2019
The challenges of midlife women: themes from the Seattle midlife Women’s health study

Authors: Annette Joan Thomas, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell and Nancy Fugate Woods

Content type: Research 15 June 2018
Chronic vulvar pain in a cohort of post-menopausal women: Atrophy or Vulvodynia?

Authors: Susanna D. Mitro, Siobán D. Harlow, John F. Randolph and Barbara D. Reed

Content type: Research 9 June 2016
Irritable bowel syndrome in midlife women: a narrative review

Authors: Pei-Lin Yang, Margaret M. Heitkemper and Kendra J. Kamp

Content type: Review 31 May 2021
Work outcomes in midlife women: the impact of menopause, work stress and working environment

Authors: Claire Hardy, Eleanor Thorne, Amanda Griffiths and Myra S. Hunter

Content type: Research 9 April 2018

Most accessed articles RSS

View all articles

Aims and scope

Women’s Midlife Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers original and review articles focused on the physical and mental health of women during midlife, including articles on aging, reproductive aging and their inter-relationship. The journal focuses on research that provides new insights into the health transitions that occur during midlife, welcoming research that examines the vulnerabilities and opportunities during this life stage and their consequences for healthy aging. Read more

Sign up to receive article alerts

Women's Midlife Health is published continuously online-only. We encourage you to sign up to receive free email alerts to keep up to date with all of the latest articles by registering here.

About the Editors

Dr. Siobán D. Harlow, Editor-in-Chief

Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases at the University of Michigan and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Michigan State University. She is Principal Investigator of the Michigan site of the 20–year multi-ethnic cohort Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and for the SWAN Repository and chaired the 2011 consensus conference: “STRAW+10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging”. From 2003–2009, she served on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Division of Reproductive Health Research, World Health Organization.

Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, Editor-in-Chief

Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, has led a sustained program of research in the field of women’s health. In 1989 Dr. Woods and her colleagues, including Dr. Joan Shaver, established the first NIH-funded Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Washington School of Nursing.

Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She was honored with the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award and the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research.