Early Menopause

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Updated December 2006

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Title:   The Jean Hailes Foundation
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women`s Health, gateway to women`s health information including issues such as ageing well, bone health, early/premature menopause, managing menopause and polycystic ovary/ovarian syndrome.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Information on managing menopause
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Information on signs and symptoms, managing menopause, early menopause, and surgical menopause.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Information on early menopause
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Early menopause is a subject that receives little attention. Yet surprisingly, around one in a hundred women experience the symptoms of early menopause, including young women in their teenage years and early twenties.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Premature ovarian failure
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   In women who experience a spontaneous early menopause, this is termed premature ovarian failure (POF).
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Food and your life stages
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Our nutritional requirements change as we move through different life stages. Adolescence, pregnancy, lactation, menopause and ageing all place extra demands on the body. These demands need to be met by our daily diet to maintain the best of health.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   HRT in the early menopause: scientific evidence and common perceptions
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) remains the first-line and most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Early menopause therapies
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Due to long term effects of oestrogen deficiency, the risks of developing osteoporosis or heart disease are considerably higher than for women reaching menopause at the expected age. For this reason, it is of extreme importance that advice is sought from your doctor.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Other therapies
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Women who experience early menopause may decide to try a variety of complementary therapies to manage symptoms or create more comfort for themselves.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Early/premature menopause definitions
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   When menopause occurs before the age of 40, it is called premature or early menopause.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Diagnosis
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Premature menopause should be considered in any woman presenting with a history of secondary amenorrhoea or menstrual disturbance regardless of whether they have menopausal symptoms.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Incidence and risk factors
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   The prevalence of spontaneous premature menopause is generally accepted as 1 percent of women aged less than 40 years and 0.1 percent for those less than 30 years (based on population studies of predominately Caucasian women).
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Causes of premature menopause
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   The cause of premature menopause is unknown in the majority of women (occurring in up to 60 percent cases in one series) and is classified as karyotypically normal spontaneous POF.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Clinical presentation
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   The clinical presentation of premature menopause (PM) is variable. Menstrual disturbance is the commonest reported presenting symptom; however, there is no particular menstrual pattern which could indicate PM.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Menopause - premature (early) menopause
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Premature or early menopause occurs before the age of 40 years. This may be brought on by medical treatments such as chemotherapy or surgery. In other cases, the ovaries spontaneously stop working and the cause may not be found.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Other therapies
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Women diagnosed with premature ovarian failure may look to complementary therapies for advice and management of their individual symptoms.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Women's stories
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Personal accounts of experience with early menopause, signs and symptoms of menopause, the impact of menopause and support options while experiencing menopause.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Early menopause symptoms
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Menopause before the age of 40 is termed 'early menopause'. It may occur spontaneously as a result of early failure of the ovaries, or be caused surgically when a woman has her ovaries removed, or caused chemically by chemotherapy for cancer.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Emotional health
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   If a woman experiences menopause before the age of 40 years she is considered to have had an early or premature menopause. Along with the physical changes that occur during menopause, women who experience this change early in life may also experience changes in mood and emotional wellbeing.
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Lifestyle
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Lifestyle issues are relevant to well being of women at every life stage from adolescence to midlife and beyond.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Early menopause
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Menopause occurring before the age of 45 years is regarded as premature (early onset) menopause.
Date:   Feb 2006
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