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PubMed1986

[The female climacteric and hypertension. An assessment of physical work capacity during treatment].

Bicycle ergometry was used for a study of physical working capacity in 114 women with hypertension, of them in 63 concomitant menopause was diagnosed. A noticeable decrease in physical working capacity and efficacy of functioning of the cardiovascular system during muscular work was demonstrated in patients with hypertension combined with menopause. An opportunity of restored tolerance to physical exercise in most of the patients with hypertension and in more than half of the patients with hypertension combined with menopause was shown during prolonged 6-month hypotensive therapy.

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PubMed2005

[Job performance and climacteric in female workers].

BACKGROUND: During climacteric, the presence of disabling symptoms and the higher incidence of chronic diseases, may impair the job performance of women. AIM: To relate job performance levels with the climacteric period and associated factors in working women aged from 42 to 55 years old. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional and correlative design, 64 secretaries at two public organizations at the Eighth Region of Chile, were assessed using the following instruments: Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (University of Toronto), adapted for Chile by PROSAM, Climacteric Self-care Questionnaire, Perceived Social Support Scale and Biodemographics Variables Questionnaire. A Perception of the Job Performance Scale was applied to the persons that superintended these woman. RESULTS: The Department Heads or persons supervising these women, determined that most workers did their work well. The best evaluations were given by older bosses. Most women under study showed a moderate alteration of the Menopause Quality of Life. A deficit of self-care during the climacteric period was detected in 92.2%. The perceived social support from friends correlated with job performance. Menopause quality of life in its different domains had no correlation with job performance variable. CONCLUSIONS: No association between changes during the climacteric period and job performance was observed among women participating in this study.

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PubMed2005

Bowel habits before and during menses in Japanese women of climacteric age: a population based study.

A good deal of data are available on the bowel habits of pre-climacteric females during menstruation. Few studies have examined the same subject in females of climacteric age but who are still menstruating, so the present study was undertaken to examine the bowel habits in menstruating females in this age group. Subjects (n = 246) were residents of a city in northern Japan, aged from 45 to 55 years old and who were still menstruating. Their every-day state of defecation and fecal characteristics were assessed with regard to four parameters: bowel movement frequency, defecation state, fecal appearance and fecal consistency. Based on a perfect match to these four criteria, the subjects were assigned to two groups, the normal group and the constipation group, and changes were assessed by enquiring how their bowel habits differed immediately before and during menses compared with their usual state. Immediately before menstruation, in the constipation group feces became harder and looser in 22.1% and 13.7%, respectively, compared with 8.7% and 9.5% in the normal group. On the other hand, during menstruation in the constipation group, feces became harder and looser in 11.6% and 16.8%, respectively, compared with 5.7% and 8.9% in the normal group. In other words, the constipation group showed a greater change immediately before and during menstruation compared with the normal group, though the differences were not significant. Our data thus suggest that the changes in the bowel habits of women of climacteric age at menstruation are greater for those suffering from constipation than those who are not.

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PubMed1994

[The male climacteric. A responsibility for dermatologic andrology?].

Sexual impotence is considered to be the main symptom of the male climacteric, corresponding to the female menopause. While the female climacteric is routinely observed and treated by gynecologists, there are no adequate institutions for the treatment of the corresponding male complaints. Like ovarian secretion of estrogens, which declines and thus causes the female climacteric syndrome, the endocrine metabolism of the testes decreases with increasing age. The period of this decrease, however, is far more extended than that of estrogen secretion in women. Several recent studies have yielded evidence that any disease--irrespective of its kind--in the aging man influences the decrease of testosterone levels more markedly than his age. In 1986 a study group in New England inaugurated the "Massachusetts Male Aging Study" in which healthy men in different age groups were tested for hormone levels. The most prominent result of this study was a decrease in mean testosterone levels by 1% and a decrease in the mean free testosterone levels by 1.2% per year of age. The study also allows recommendations for hormone substitution. The decrease in sexual function in the aging male does not correlate with the decrease in testosterone production. In summary, however, there is no doubt that the frequency of sexual dysfunction increases with advancing age, partly because of drug interactions. As there does not seem to be any sound basis for assuming an endocrine basis for the male climacteric, other reasons must probably be sought for the male climacteric or mid-life crisis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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