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Research
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:5
Published on: 18 August 2017
Study protocol
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:4
Published on: 17 August 2017
Review
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:3
Published on: 16 August 2017
Research
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 ...
Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:2
Published on: 27 July 2017
Review
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:1
Published on: 4 May 2017
Research
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.
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:6
Published on: 9 November 2016
Study protocol
The cohort was commenced to examine women’s health from midlife (45–55 years) before the menopausal transition and into ageing.
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:5
Published on: 4 October 2016
Research
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:4
Published on: 9 June 2016
Commentary
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:3
Published on: 7 March 2016
Reviewer acknowledgement
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).
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:2
Published on: 18 February 2016
Study protocol
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.
Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:1
Published on: 27 January 2016
Study protocol
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...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:12
Published on: 18 December 2015
Review
Autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) preferentially affect women, and are characterized by systemic inflammation leadi...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:11
Published on: 2 December 2015
Review
Female sexual dysfunction occurs frequently in midlife breast cancer survivors (BCS) and encompasses problems with sexual desire, interest, arousal, orgasm and genitopelvic pain. Although common, sexual proble...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:9
Published on: 2 November 2015
Editorial
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:8
Published on: 2 November 2015
Review
Data suggest that disability prevalence among mid-aged populations is increasing in recent years; current prevalence estimates for mid-aged adults range from 20 to 40 %. The World Health Organization’s Interna...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:10
Published on: 14 October 2015
Review
Canada’s Generation X is now entering the menopausal transition and pursuing effective therapy for bothersome vasomotor symptoms. They do so at a time when confusion about the safe and appropriate use of menop...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:7
Published on: 5 October 2015
Review
Sexual health is important to the self worth, emotional well being, and overall quality of life of women in midlife. However, urinary incontinence, which is prevalent in this population, has a negative impact ...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:6
Published on: 14 September 2015
Editorial
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Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:4
Published on: 1 September 2015
Review
As the Australian population ages, significantly more women are entering the postmenopausal stage of the climacteric, yet research focusing on the prevalence of depressive symptoms in this stage of ovarian age...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:3
Published on: 11 August 2015
Review
Although the health benefits of physical activity are well established, the prevalence of midlife women accumulating sufficient physical activity to meet current physical activity guidelines is strikingly low,...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:1
Published on: 11 August 2015
Review
There is accumulating evidence but no definitive answers about the incidence of depressed mood in the menopause transition and its association with the changing hormonal milieu. While a changing hormonal milie...
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:2
Published on: 11 August 2015
Editorial
Women's Midlife Health 2015 1:5
Published on: 11 August 2015
