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  1. Authors: Maryam Azizi Kutenaee, Sareh Dashti, Shideh Rafati, Mehrsa Moannaei, Mojtaba Masoudi, Abdolazim Nejatizadeh, Mehdi Shahmoradi and Nasibeh Roozbeh
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:8

    The original article was published in Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:5

  2. Midlife is a time of increased responsibilities for women who have multiple roles including taking care of children, caring for elderly parents, managing households, and working outside the home. With little t...

    Authors: Annette Joan Thomas, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell, Kenneth C. Pike and Nancy Fugate Woods
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:6
  3. Menopause is a natural period in women’s life and can be affected by several factors. The aim of this study was to identify the associated factors for age of natural menopause and among women with early and pr...

    Authors: Maryam Azizi Kutenaee, Sareh Dashti, Shideh Rafati, Mehrsa Moannaei, Mojtaba Masoudi, Abdolazim Nejatizadeh, Mehdi Shahmoradi and Nasibeh Roozbeh
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:5

    The Correction to this article has been published in Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:8

  4. Loss in ovarian function during mid-life results in adverse changes in the cardiovascular profile of women. The association between CVD risk factors and menopause differ cross-culturally since several modifiab...

    Authors: Debasmita Kar and Subho Roy
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:4
  5. The number of never-married women is increasing worldwide. According to a recent census (2016) this trend is also apparent in Iran. The aim of the present study was to investigate how never-married Iranian wom...

    Authors: Shakiba Pourasad Shahrak, Serge Brand and Ziba Taghizadeh
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:3
  6. Hysterectomy, particularly when conducted in women younger than 45 years, has been associated with increased risk of non-communicable diseases. In India, research indicates that hysterectomy is a common proced...

    Authors: Sapna Desai, Roopal Jyoti Singh, Dipti Govil, Devaki Nambiar, Ankita Shukla, Hemali Heidi Sinha, Rajani Ved, Neerja Bhatla and Gita D. Mishra
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2023 9:1
  7. Authors: Lorena Garcia, Shawna Follis, Cynthia A. Thomson, Khadijah Breathett, Crystal Wiley Cené, Monik Jimenez, Charles Kooperberg, Kamal Masaki, Electra D. Paskett, Mary Pettinger, Aaron Aragaki, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Marcia L. Stefanick
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:13

    The original article was published in Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:1

  8. High recidivism rates indicate that current forms of imprisonment may be an ineffective response to problems that mainly burden those ensconced in poverty and marginalization. Homelessness, unemployment, racia...

    Authors: Juana Hutchinson-Colas, Mary Cathryn Earnhardt, Afsara Mannan, James McGreevy and Gloria A Bachmann
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:12
  9. Connectedness and attachment are vital parts of humanity. Loneliness, a state of distress in reaction to perceived detachment and isolation, is reported by over one-third of U.S. adults and is associated with ...

    Authors: E Liberatore-Maguire, A Devlin, S Fisher, F Ramsey, H Grunwald, K Brownstein and MF Morrison
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:11
  10. Recent studies have suggested that higher postmenopausal follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) may be associated with lower risk of diabetes. However, relatively little is known about postmenopausal FSH levels, i...

    Authors: Rebecca Costa, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Jyrki Virtanen, Leo Niskanen and Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:8
  11. Vitamin D is vital for skeletal integrity as well as optimal muscle work. High incidence and prevalence of vitamin D deficiency as well as pelvic organ prolapse are found in postmenopausal women, thus raising ...

    Authors: Mateja Legan, Matija Barbič, Joško Osredkar and Mija Blaganje
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:9
  12. Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among women in Isfahan, Iran; however, its prevention is not desirable in this city. This disease poses several health, social and economic challenges for wom...

    Authors: Maryam Kianpour, Fariba Taleghani, Mahnaz Noroozi, Mitra Savabi-Esfahani, Zahra Boroumandfar, Tahereh Changiz, Zahra Ravankhah, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard and Maryam Sadat Hashemi
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:7
  13. Many women experience various symptoms during the period of menopausal transition, including complaints of reduced cognitive functioning. However, these complaints are not necessarily recognized as core menopa...

    Authors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Yuki Ideno, Kazue Nagai, Jung-Su Lee, Toshiyuki Yasui, Takumi Kurabayashi and Kiyoshi Takamatsu
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:6
  14. The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges that disproportionately impacted women. Household roles typically performed by women (such as resource acquisition and caretaking) became more difficult due to financ...

    Authors: Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Sofiya Shreyer, Ashley Boudreau, Sarah Witkowski and Daniel E. Brown
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:5
  15. Getting old is hard, but it beats the alternative. This commentary explores some of the challenges of aging with a physical disability and the considerations taken to prevent further functional decline or inju...

    Authors: Allison Kessler
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:2
  16. This paper reviews differences in the experience of the menopause transition and midlife health outcomes between Black and White women who participated in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), ...

    Authors: Siobán D. Harlow, Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, Gail A. Greendale, Nancy E. Avis, Alexis N. Reeves, Thomas R. Richards and Tené T. Lewis
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:3

    The Correction to this article has been published in Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:10

  17. “Race” and “ethnicity” are socially constructed terms, not based on biology - in contrast to biologic ancestry and genetic admixture - and are flexible, contested, and unstable concepts, often driven by power....

    Authors: Lorena Garcia, Shawna Follis, Cynthia A. Thomson, Khadijah Breathett, Crystal Wiley Cené, Monik Jimenez, Charles Kooperberg, Kamal Masaki, Electra D. Paskett, Mary Pettinger, Aaron Aragaki, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Marcia L. Stefanick
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:1

    The Correction to this article has been published in Women's Midlife Health 2022 8:13

  18. The Women’s Health Institute in collaboration with the Journal of Women’s Midlife Health hosted a national roundtable with Dr. Vivian Pinn via Zoom to honor her for her achievements in the areas of women’s hea...

    Authors: Gloria Bachmann and Nancy Woods
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:11
  19. Sexual self-efficacy is essential for appropriate and desirable sexual function and sexual quality of life. This study aimed to compare sexual quality of life and sexual self-efficacy among women during reprod...

    Authors: Hedyeh Riazi, Fatemeh Madankan, Seyed Ali Azin, Maliheh Nasiri and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:8
  20. Racism has significantly impacted communities of color for centuries. The year 2020 is a reminder that racism is an ongoing public health crisis. Healthcare institutions have an important role in dismantling r...

    Authors: Michelle S. Diop, Christy N. Taylor, Sascha N. Murillo, Jessica A. Zeidman, Aisha K. James and Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:7
  21. Reducing cervical cancer mortality and morbidity using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) is a primary option, particularly in resource constrained countries. Although VIA screening is a priority program...

    Authors: Getinet Kassahun Azene
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:6
  22. Palpitations are reported commonly by women around the time of menopause as skipped, missed, irregular, and/or exaggerated heartbeats or heart pounding. However, much less is known about palpitations than othe...

    Authors: Ying Sheng, Janet S. Carpenter, Charles D. Elomba, Jennifer S. Alwine, Min Yue, Caitlin A. Pike, Chen X. Chen and James E. Tisdale
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:5
  23. Midlife women between the ages of 40 and 65 years have reported multiple challenges due to menopausal, developmental, and situational transitions from younger to older adulthood. During the midlife period, man...

    Authors: Pei-Lin Yang, Margaret M. Heitkemper and Kendra J. Kamp
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:4
  24. 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...

    Authors: Brandi Patrice Smith, Esmeralda Cardoso-Mendoza, Jodi A. Flaws, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Rebecca L. Smith
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:2
  25. 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...

    Authors: Serena Wang, Drystan Phillips and Jinkook Lee
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2021 7:1
  26. 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...

    Authors: Samuel W. Golenbock, Lauren A. Wise, Geralyn M. Lambert-Messerlian, Elizabeth E. Eklund and Bernard L. Harlow
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:9
  27. 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...

    Authors: Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez and Elsa S. Strotmeyer
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:8
  28. 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...

    Authors: Roger D. Newman-Norlund, Chris Rorden, Nasim Maleki, Milap Patel, Brian Cheng and X. Michelle Androulakis
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:7
  29. 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...

    Authors: Brittney S. Lange-Maia, Kelly Karavolos, Elizabeth F. Avery, Elsa S. Strotmeyer, Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, Bradley M. Appelhans, Imke Janssen, Sheila A. Dugan and Howard M. Kravitz
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:6
  30. 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...

    Authors: Iriane Prado de Santis, Juliana Dal-Ri Lindenau, Ramon Bossardi Ramos, Thais Rasia Silva, Gislaine Casanova, Karen Oppermann and Poli Mara Spritzer
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:3
  31. 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...

    Authors: Katherine E. Campbell, Alexandra Gorelik, Cassandra E. Szoeke and Lorraine Dennerstein
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:2
  32. 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...

    Authors: Chanil Ekanayake, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Rasika Herath and Prasantha Wijesinghe
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2020 6:1
  33. 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...

    Authors: Yuki Ideno, Kunihiko Hayashi, Jung Su Lee, Yukiko Miyazaki and Shosuke Suzuki
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:4
  34. To assess the relationship between abdominal pain severity during the menopausal transition (MT) and age, MT stage, reproductive biomarkers, stress biomarkers, and stress perceptions.

    Authors: Nini G. L. Callan, Ellen S. Mitchell, Margaret M. Heitkemper and Nancy F. Woods
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:2
  35. 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...

    Authors: Annette Joan Thomas, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell and Nancy Fugate Woods
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2019 5:1
  36. 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...

    Authors: Alehegn Bishaw Geremew and Abebaw Addis Gelagay
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:13
  37. 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...

    Authors: A. Francis, S. Jasani and G. Bachmann
    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:12