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Contraceptive methods have rapidly evolved over the past several decades, but little research has explored how women interact with contraception over time. Exploring contraceptive beliefs, perceptions, and att...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:3
Previously, quality of life (Qol) has been defined as an individual’s evaluation of a satisfactory life as a whole (i.e. physically, mentally, psychologically, and socially). Only a few studies have examined t...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:2
Prior literature on disability has centered on disability prevalence among older adults ages 65 and older, providing only limited insight to potential gender differences in disability prevalence in mid-life. M...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:1
Migraine is three times more common in women than in men and is the 4th leading cause of disability in women. Onset of migraine increases at menarche, with peaks in prevalence in the late 30s, and a rapid decl...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:11
The purpose of this study was to examine the association of lean body mass (LBM) to the development of vasomotor symptoms (VMS) as women transition through menopause.
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:10
There is conflicting evidence regarding the association between a history of depression and risk of early menopause. In a cohort of premenopausal women, we investigated the association between depression histo...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:9
Issues of poor physical functioning and disability are burdensome for midlife adults and evidence suggests that the prevalence of these conditions is increasing temporally. Physical functioning during the midl...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:8
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate potential changes in brain morphology (cortical thickness and cortical/subcortical volume) accompanying a series of sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blockade tre...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:7
Chronic conditions are associated with worse physical function and commonly develop during midlife. We tested whether the presence of 8 chronic conditions, or the development of these conditions, is associated...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:6
The perimenopause is associated with considerable biopsychosocial changes. The majority of women manage to adjust to these changes and cope well with the shift from reproductive to non-reproductive life. Howev...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:5
To live independently, individuals must be able to perform basic activities of daily living (ADLs), including bathing, dressing, and transferring out of a bed or chair. When older adults develop difficulty or ...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:4
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in postmenopausal women, and inflammation is a key mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) h...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:3
Data available from longitudinal studies of adequate duration to explore midlife risk factors for late life higher depressive symptom scores in women is lacking. This study examines midlife (mean ages 50 years...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:2
Hysterectomy is the most common major gynaecological procedure. The aim of this study was to study vaginal, sexual and urinary symptoms following total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), non-descent vaginal hystere...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:1
Various questionnaires have been developed to assess physical activity, but only a few simple questionnaires are suitable for self-administration in large groups of midlife working women. This study examined t...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:4
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease predominantly affecting middle-aged women. Very commonly, pain is a manifestation of active disease and because untreated RA can result i...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:3
To assess the relationship between abdominal pain severity during the menopausal transition (MT) and age, MT stage, reproductive biomarkers, stress biomarkers, and stress perceptions.
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:2
To examine the undesirable stressful life events midlife women experience, including: 1) which life events midlife women reported most frequently; 2) which life events women rated as most undesirable; and 3) w...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:1
Some symptoms at midlife are associated with stress, such as hot flashes, trouble sleeping, headaches, or depressed mood. Hot flashes have been studied in relation to laboratory stressors, physiological biomar...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:14
A modern contraceptive method is a product or medical procedure that interferes with reproduction following sexual intercourse; however, contraceptive services remain out of reach for many women of reproductiv...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:13
In recent years public awareness of healthcare disparities experienced by transgender individuals throughout the world have garnered increasing attention within the media and from health advocates. Despite thi...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:12
Women in mid-life experience unique stressors, including transitions within their family roles, informal caregiving, job stress, and perceived discrimination. The impact of these stressors on cardiovascular he...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:11
Women employed outside the home in urban settings must adapt to changing circadian microenvironments. The pattern and extent of vasoactive hormone responses to these changes may depend upon age and ethnic back...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:10
Stress has been implicated as a factor in the presence and severity of symptoms during the menopausal transition. Our primary aim was to test the hypothesis that stress-sensitive biological measures and self-r...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:9
Midlife, the period of the lifespan between younger and older adulthood, has been described as a period of transition in women’s lives. Investigators studying midlife have focused on women 40 to 65 years of ag...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:8
Some women with genetic risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer (e.g., BRCA1/2) opt to undergo prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PSO, or surgical removal of the ovaries & fallopian tubes) in order to reduce the...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:7
In South Africa, hormonal contraception is widely used in women over the age of 40 years. One of these methods and the most commonly used is depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) which has been found to hav...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:6
There is growing research interest in the question of whether menopause impacts upon mid-aged women’s work outcomes, but the evidence to date is inconclusive. This paper examines whether: (i) menopausal status...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:3
Because the ovarian follicle pool is established in utero, adverse exposures during this period may be especially impactful on the size and health of the initial follicle endowment, potentially shaping traject...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:5
Stress is ubiquitous in everyday life, and chronic stress can have negative consequences for health and social welfare. Although a growing body of research addresses the relationships between stress, health, a...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:4
In women, midlife is a period of social and physiological change. Ostensibly stressful, cross-sectional studies suggest women experience decreasing stress perceptions and increasing positive outlook during thi...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:2
Age at natural menopause (ANM) is considered as a biologic marker of health and ageing. The relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and ANM is currently unknown, and whether smoking plays a role i...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:1
Although there has been noteworthy attention to both depressed mood symptoms and majordepressive disorder during the menopausal transition (MT), recently investigators have questioned whether there is an over-...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:11
To create a system where evidence based medicine can be applied to accommodate every woman’s needs by designing a contraceptive pathway that can be utilized by any healthcare provider, regardless of the patien...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:10
Previous reports have noted that dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) increases prior to the final menstrual period (FMP) and remains stable beyond the FMP. How DHEAS concentrations correspond with other sex...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:9
Recently unintended pregnancies have been described as "a new kind of mid-life crisis." Given the high prevalence of unwanted or mistimed pregnancy in the US, we examined the sexual and reproductive health pat...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:8
Despite the growing population of midlife women in the USA and in other economically-advantaged countries, there is scant research focusing on this population, especially regarding contraceptive choices in tho...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:7
This commentary discusses the limited availability of information on contraceptive preferences and unmet need for contraception among midlife women in both high and low income countries. Given that risk of pre...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:6
Reproductive age may be a risk factor for vascular disease. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is produced by viable ovarian follicles and reflects reproductive age. We examined whether AMH concentrations were assoc...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:5
The Midlife Women’s Health Study (MWHS) was developed to address some of the gaps in knowledge regarding risk factors for hot flashes among generally healthy midlife women during their menopausal transition. T...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:4
In the United States, there are an increasing number of couples who are intentionally delaying child-bearing. As the average age of mothers continues to rise, more and more women are being faced with the diffi...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:3
Patterns of symptom clustering in midlife women may suggest common underlying mechanisms or may identify women at risk of adverse health outcomes or, conversely, likely to experience healthy aging. This paper ...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:2
While gender differences in hypertension and increased prevalence rates among women at midlife have been documented in multiple settings, the evidence on the Arab world has not been systematically examined. Th...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:1
The need for longitudinal, population-based studies to illuminate women’s experiences of symptoms during the menopausal transition motivated the development of the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study.
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:6
The cohort was commenced to examine women’s health from midlife (45–55 years) before the menopausal transition and into ageing.
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:5
Although postmenopausal vulvar pain is frequently attributed to vaginal atrophy, such symptoms may be due to vulvodynia, a chronic vulvar pain condition. Given the limited research on vulvodynia in postmenopau...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:4
A major unmet challenge in developing preventative treatment programs for osteoporosis is that the optimal timing of treatment remains unknown. In this commentary we make the argument that the menopausal trans...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:3
The editor of Women’s Midlife Health would like to thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 1 (2015).
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:2
This report describes the methods utilized in the Penn Ovarian Aging Study (POAS), which is a longitudinal cohort study of hormone dynamics and menopausal symptoms of women in the menopause transition.
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:1
The Passo Fundo Cohort Study (PFS) is a population-based longitudinal observational study of pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal women that has been ongoing since 1995 in Passo Fundo, a city in southern Brazil. Th...
Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:12
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September 2021
The North American Menopause Society
September 22-25
Washington, DC, USA
October 2021
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
October 16-20 2021
Baltimore, MD
October 2022
18th World Congress on Menopause
October 26-29 2022
Lisbon, Portugal