Updates

The California Teachers Study is a prospective cohort study initiated in 1995–1996 using mailed, self-administered questionnaires. This recently published sub-study compared mortality in 9,785 participants who had a surgical menopause and 32,219 who had a natural menopause [1]. All-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality rates were obtained from three Californian data banks and compared to menopausal… Read More

The use of hormone therapy (HT) by menopausal women declined by about two-thirds after the publication of the Women’s Health Initiative Study in 2002. In order to evaluate how the WHI influenced women’s knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards HT use, as well as to find out their specific concerns and sources of information, Tao and… Read More

The first announcement brochure for our regional meeting Challenges in Womens Health, in collaboration with the Indian Menopause Society, to be held in Mumbai, 6-8th December 2013, now available online - read more »… Read More

Tom and colleagues have recently reported that a later age at natural menopause was associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality [1]. The authors conducted an analysis of the data of the Iowa cohort of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE). The EPESE cohort is a longitudinal population-based study of… Read More

From time to time, [i]Menopause Live[/i] and [i]Our Menopause World[/i] monthly literature review bring information on the everlasting debate concerning the value of screening mammography. The recent paper by Raftery and Chorozoglou, published in the [i]British Medical Journal[/i], underestimated lives saved by mammography screening by half [1]. Now the American College of Radiology has sent… Read More

Following the publication within the last year of two papers by Bolland and colleagues in the [i]BMJ[/i] [1,2] regarding the relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplements and heart disease, there still seems to be confusion among practitioners despite vigorous discussion and uncertainty regarding the validity of the results. In April 2011, Bolland and colleagues… Read More

Li and associates have recently reported a study aimed at estimating persistence with osteoporosis therapies and assessing persistence by different users (stable and switching), type of osteoporosis drug, and calendar year of initiation among postmenopausal women, 50 or more years old included in UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD) between January 1995 and March 2008… Read More

The aim of a recently published study by Cummings and colleagues was to survey the views of women who stopped hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after 2002, including those who later restarted [1]. A questionnaire survey was carried out on the UK-based menopause website www.menopausematters.co.uk, evaluating how women were influenced by HRT advice. The main outcome… Read More

Villalon and colleagues report a study of the effect of weight loss and weight regain on bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal overweight or obese women [1]. They measured BMD and body composition by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, biochemical markers of bone formation and resorption, and aerobic power by spirometry (VO[-]2[/-] peak). They found that weight… Read More

The recent 29-year follow-up analysis of the prospective Swedish Study of Tabar and colleagues [1] fueled the hope that mammographic screening can reduce breast cancer mortality. The study deserves careful scrutiny given the enormity of the societal costs involved.    The study compared the number of first breast cancer cases diagnosed over a 7-year screening… Read More