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Menopause

Known as: climacteric female, menopausal state, female climacteric state 
The time of life when a woman's ovaries stop producing hormones and menstrual periods stop. Natural menopause usually occurs around age 50. A woman… 
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

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27 relations
AgingAmenorrheaBELLADONNA LEAFBelladonna Alkaloids

Broader (2)

Climactericreproductive function

Narrower (2)

PostmenopausePremature Menopause

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Human Ovarian Reserve from Conception to the Menopause
The human ovary contains a fixed number of non-growing follicles (NGFs) established before birth that decline with increasing age… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Body image and sexual problems in young women with breast cancer
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of body image and sexual problems in the first months after… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
World Poverty and Human Rights
Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life long severe poverty, with… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Shattuck lecture--clinical research to clinical practice--lost in translation?
In the past 50 years we have made substantial progress in understanding the biology of disease and in devising new ways to… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Changes in proinflammatory cytokine activity after menopause.
There is now a large body of evidence suggesting that the decline in ovarian function with menopause is associated with… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A mutation in the age-1 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans lengthens life and reduces hermaphrodite fertility.
age-1(hx546) is a recessive mutant allele in Caenorhabditis elegans that results in an increase in mean life span averaging 40… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Deaths: final data for 1999.
OBJECTIVES This report presents final 1999 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Willingness to Pay for a Quality-adjusted Life Year
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) provides a clear decision rule: undertake an intervention if the monetary value of its benefits… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Age at natural menopause and risk of cardiovascular disease.
BACKGROUND Early natural menopause has been postulated to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE To examine the… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
The effects of education on health
This paper investigates the effects of education on health. The determinants of mortality are receiving increasing scrutiny… 
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