PubMed · 7757713
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T Aoki, Y Tomoda. 1993. [Climacteric syndrome].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7757713/
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This study was undertaken to investigate the influence of past pregnancy and delivery on the perimenopausal status in 144 women (48-52 years of age). Individual interviews to ascertain the personal profile, medical history, events at pregnancy, delivery and puerperium, and the kind and severity of climacteric symptoms were held. The subjects were divided into two groups by means of a simplified menopausal index (SMI): group A had climacteric symptoms (SMI > 50) and those in group B had mild symptoms (SMI < or = 50). The analysis of the principal components, and the correlation among the variables revealed that three factors--the impression and events at past pregnancies and deliveries, reproductive functions, and the psycho-character properties--had a significant influence on the status at the perimenopause, but the social-environmental factors appeared to have no significant influence on the severity of climacteric symptoms.
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Medicine has till now payed less attention to psychosocial aspects of the menopause than to the hormonal changes of woman in this period of life. The climacteric woman is characterized in the language of the organ-medicine by faulty terms. The lack of hormones is considered to be a disease which has to be treated. The tendency to medicalize the menopause is in contradiction to the results of recent prospective studies. These studies show that pre- and postmenopausal complaints are less severe than they are often described. Psychosocial risk factors before and during the climacteric phase favour the development of psychic and psychosomatic symptoms. The climacteric period of life has to be seen as a vulnerable time of life which should be considered in the treatment of menopausal women.