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  1. 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

    Content type: Research

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  2. 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

    Content type: Review

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  3. 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

    Content type: Research

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  4. 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

    Content type: Review

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  5. 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

    Content type: Review

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  7. 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

    Content type: Research

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  8. 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

    Content type: Research

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  11. 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

    Content type: Research

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  12. 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

    Content type: Commentary

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  13. 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

    Content type: Research

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  14. 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

    Content type: Research

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  17. 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

    Content type: Research

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  18. 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

    Content type: Research

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  19. 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

    Content type: Research

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  20. 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

    Content type: Research

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  22. 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

    Content type: Research

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  23. 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

    Content type: Research

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  25. 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

    Content type: Research

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  26. 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

    Content type: Commentary

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  27. 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...

    Authors: Andrea L. Stewart, Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla, Alexandra G. Wolfe and Susan A. Everson-Rose

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:11

    Content type: Review

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  29. 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...

    Authors: Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Laura Huicochea-Gómez, Diana Cahuich-Campos, Dana-Lynn Ko’omoa-Lange and Daniel E. Brown

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:9

    Content type: Research

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  31. 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...

    Authors: Zarah Batulan, Nadia Maarouf, Vipul Shrivastava and Edward O’Brien

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:7

    Content type: Study protocol

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  32. 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...

    Authors: Mags E. Beksinska, Immo Kleinschmidt and Jenni A. Smit

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:6

    Content type: Research

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  34. 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...

    Authors: Maria E. Bleil, Paul English, Jhaqueline Valle, Nancy F. Woods, Kyle D. Crowder, Steven E. Gregorich and Marcelle I. Cedars

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:5

    Content type: Research

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  35. 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...

    Authors: Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Nicole Jaff and Nancy Fugate Woods

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:4

    Content type: Commentary

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  36. 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...

    Authors: Elizabeth Hedgeman, Rebecca E. Hasson, Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, William H. Herman and Siobán D. Harlow

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:2

    Content type: Research

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  37. 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...

    Authors: Gita D. Mishra, Hsin-Fang Chung, Yalamzewod Assefa Gelaw and Deborah Loxton

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2018 4:1

    Content type: Research

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  39. 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...

    Authors: Chi-Son Kim, Deanna Tikhonov, Lena Merjanian and Adrian C. Balica

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:10

    Content type: Review

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  40. 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...

    Authors: Catherine Kim, Siobàn D. Harlow, Huiyong Zheng, Daniel S. McConnell and John F. Randolph Jr.

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:9

    Content type: Research

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  41. 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...

    Authors: Versie Johnson-Mallard, Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston, Nancy Fugate Woods, Katherine E. Simmonds, Ivy M. Alexander and Diana Taylor

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:8

    Content type: Commentary

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  43. 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...

    Authors: Siobán D. Harlow, Jennifer R. Dusendang, Michelle M. Hood and Nancy Fugate Woods

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:6

    Content type: Commentary

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  44. 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...

    Authors: Catherine Kim, Yuanyuan Pan, Barbara H. Braffett, Valerie L. Arends, Michael W. Steffes, Hunter Wessells and Aruna V. Sarma

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:5

    Content type: Research

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  45. 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...

    Authors: Ayelet Ziv-Gal, Rebecca L. Smith, Lisa Gallicchio, Susan R. Miller, Howard A. Zacur and Jodi A. Flaws

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:4

    Content type: Study protocol

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  47. 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 ...

    Authors: Siobán D. Harlow, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Michael R. Elliott, Irina Bondarenko, Nancy E. Avis, Joyce T. Bromberger, Maria Mori Brooks, Janis M. Miller and Barbara D. Reed

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2017 3:2

    Content type: Research

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  49. 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.

    Authors: Nancy Fugate Woods and Ellen Sullivan Mitchell

    Citation: Women's Midlife Health 2016 2:6

    Content type: Research

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