Menopause

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Being conditioned, yet becoming strong": Asian American women in menopausal transition. 
  • "Symptom-specific or holistic": menopausal symptom management. 
  • A descriptive Internet survey on menopausal symptoms: five ethnic groups of Asian American university faculty and staff. 
  • A national multiethnic online forum study on menopausal symptom experience. 
  • A randomized, controlled pilot study of acupuncture treatment for menopausal hot flashes. 
  • A splicing variant of TERT identified by GWAS interacts with menopausal estrogen therapy in risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • A two-disease model of female breast cancer: mortality in 1969 among white females in the United States. 
  • Age and menopausal effects of hormonal birth control and hormone replacement therapy in relation to breast cancer risk. 
  • Age at natural menopause and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Assessment of vulvar discomfort with sexual activity among women in the United States. 
  • Association Between Menopausal Estrogen-Only Therapy and Ovarian Carcinoma Risk. 
  • Association between extent of axillary lymph node dissection and survival in patients with stage I breast cancer. 
  • Association between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and breast cancer varies by menopausal status. 
  • Bioavailability of estradiol as a marker for breast cancer risk assessment. 
  • Black women in menopausal transition. 
  • Calcific pelvic lymphadenopathy presenting as a postmenopausal adnexal mass. A case report. 
  • Cancer-related fatigue. 
  • Changing trends and prognostic features in endometrial cancer associated with exogenous estrogen therapy. 
  • Characteristics and correlates of fatigue after adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. 
  • Cigarette smoking and the risk of female reproductive cancer. 
  • Cluster analysis of midlife women's sleep-related symptoms: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • Consumption of dairy products and the risk of breast cancer: a review of the literature. 
  • Coping styles and personality domains related to menopausal stress. 
  • Depression and insomnia in women. 
  • Depressive symptoms, menopausal status, and climacteric symptoms in women at midlife. 
  • Desvenlafaxine, a serotonin-norepinephrine uptake inhibitor for major depressive disorder, neuropathic pain and the vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. 
  • Do estradiol levels influence on the cognitive function during antidepressant treatments in post-menopausal women with major depressive disorder? A comparison with pre-menopausal women. 
  • Effects of exercise training on cardiovascular function and plasma lipid, lipoprotein, and apolipoprotein concentrations in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Effects of the body mass index on menopausal symptoms among Asian American midlife women using two different classification systems. 
  • Emotional antecedents of hot flashes during daily life. 
  • Endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Epidemiology of basal-like breast cancer. 
  • Estrogen and progesterone production by granulosa cell monolayers derived from in vitro fertilization procedures: lack of evidence for modulation by androgen. 
  • Ethnic differences in the clusters of menopausal symptoms. 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Female reproductive factors and major eye diseases in Asian women -the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Histopathologic distinctions in the relationship of estrogens and endometrial cancer. 
  • Hormonal and reproductive risk factors for development of systemic lupus erythematosus: results of a population-based, case-control study. 
  • Hormone and bone mineral status in endurance-trained and sedentary postmenopausal women. 
  • Hormone therapy for the management of menopausal symptoms: pharmacotherapy update. 
  • Immigration transition and depressive symptoms: four major ethnic groups of midlife women in the United States. 
  • Immigration transition and sleep-related symptoms experienced during menopausal transition. 
  • In vitro synthesis of steroids by a feminising adrenocortical carcinoma: effect of prolactin and other protein hormones. 
  • Initiation and discontinuation of hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms: results from a community sample. 
  • Intrinsic breast tumor subtypes, race, and long-term survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Issues in an Internet survey among midlife Asian women. 
  • Large prospective study of ovarian cancer screening in high-risk women: CA125 cut-point defined by menopausal status. 
  • Lifestyle, occupational, and reproductive factors in relation to pancreatic cancer risk. 
  • Liver disease in menopause. 
  • Long-term follow-up of a phase II trial studying a weekly doxorubicin-based multiple drug adjuvant therapy for stage II node-positive carcinoma of the breast. 
  • Management of adnexal mass. 
  • Managing menopause. 
  • Married with children: predictors of mental and physical health in middle-aged women. 
  • Menopausal hormones and breast cancer in a biracial population. 
  • Menopausal status, moderate-intensity walking, and symptoms in midlife women. 
  • Menopausal symptom experience of Hispanic midlife women in the United States. 
  • Menopausal symptom experience: an online forum study. 
  • Menopausal symptoms among four major ethnic groups in the United States. 
  • Menopausal symptoms and physical activity in multiethnic groups of midlife women: a secondary analysis. 
  • Menopausal transition symptoms in midlife women living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. 
  • Menopause and mood. Is depression linked with hormone changes? 
  • Methodological issues in the recruitment of ethnic minority subjects to research via the Internet: a discussion paper. 
  • Moxibustion for treating menopausal hot flashes: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Necropsy diagnosis of endometrial cancer and detection-bias in case/control studies. 
  • Nephrolithiasis from calcium supplementation. 
  • Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in women. 
  • Nonpharmacologic, nonherbal management of menopause-associated vasomotor symptoms: an umbrella systematic review (protocol). 
  • Nutritional risk and the metabolic syndrome in women: opportunities for preventive intervention from the Framingham Nutrition Study. 
  • Obesity and body fat distribution and breast cancer prognosis. 
  • Obesity, body fat distribution, and sex hormones in breast cancer patients. 
  • Optical breast cancer margin assessment: an observational study of the effects of tissue heterogeneity on optical contrast. 
  • Oral contraceptives and breast cancer: a case-control study with hospital and community controls. 
  • Oral contraceptives and survival in breast cancer patients aged 20 to 54 years. 
  • Perceptions of menopausal stage and patterns of hormone replacement therapy use. 
  • Physical activities and sleep-related symptoms in 4 major racial/ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals and menopause among women 20-65 years of age (NHANES). 
  • Polymorphisms of the Interleukin 6 gene contribute to cervical cancer susceptibility in Eastern Chinese women. 
  • Predictors of mental health in midlife and older Australian women: A multilevel investigation. 
  • Progesterone receptor activity in leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata. 
  • Promoting informed decision making: hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of the Midlife Women's Symptom Index in multiethnic groups. 
  • Race, breast cancer subtypes, and survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Symptoms in Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups of Midlife Women: A Secondary Analysis. 
  • Recruitment of research participants through the Internet. 
  • Relationship of age and menopausal status to estrogen receptor content in primary carcinoma of the breast. 
  • Reply: "age at menopause: imputing age at menopause for women with a hysterectomy with application to risk of postmenopausal breast cancer". 
  • Sex differences in incidence, pathophysiology, and outcome of primary intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Stimulation protocols for patients with "atypical response". 
  • Stress reactivity and exercise training in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Subethnic differences in the menopausal symptom experience of Asian American midlife women. 
  • Symptom communication in breast cancer: relationships of holding back and self-efficacy for communication to symptoms and adjustment. 
  • The association between in utero cigarette smoke exposure and age at menopause. 
  • The ethics of aggregation and hormone replacement therapy. 
  • The impact of cyclophosphamide on menstruation and pregnancy in women with rheumatologic disease 
  • The perimenopausal patient in in vitro fertilization: the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone. 
  • The psychometric properties of Pen-and-Pencil and Internet versions of the Midlife Women's Symptom Index (MSI). 
  • The relationships between psychological symptoms and cardiovascular symptoms experienced during the menopausal transition: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • The role of acupuncture in treating menopausal hot flashes. 
  • Timing of weight gain and breast cancer risk. 
  • Tuboovarian abscess in postmenopausal women. 
  • Use of alternative therapies in menopause. 
  • Use of mindfulness, meditation and relaxation to treat vasomotor symptoms. 
  • Variant genotypes of CDKN1A and CDKN1B are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in Chinese women. 
  • Vasomotor Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Veteran and Non-Veteran Postmenopausal Women. 
  • Web-based interventions for menopause: A systematic integrated literature review. 
  • Weight gain in women diagnosed with breast cancer. 
  • Yoga of Awareness program for menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors: results from a randomized trial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery