Women's Health– Menopause 2024/2025
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What is menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔point in time when loss of ovarian
function is followed by permanent cessation of menstruation
What is perimenopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Period of time immediately prior
to and following menopause
What is the climacteric period? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔period of waning ovarian
function when a woman passes thru the transition from reproductive years
into menopause
What is surgical menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Dramatic alterations within
days of surgery
• manifestations much *more severe than natural menopause*
***** important to treat to minimize immediate symptoms and long term
consequences
At what age is menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• *Average age 51.5 years*
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,• Range of 48-55 years
What factors HASTEN menopause?? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Smoking
• living at high altitudes
• malnutrition, thin habitus
• family tendency (mom was early so shall you be)
What DOES NOT affect menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Oral contraceptive
use
• marital status
• parity
• race
• age at menarche
• socioeconomic status
• height
What is the Physiology of menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Fewer ovarian
follicles cause rise in FSH levels.
_ body really wants to ovulate so it amps up stimulation
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, • Increase in stromal component of ovary leads to shift in ratio from
estrogen to androgen
- more stroma= more androgens=more male hormone
How is estrogen produced AFTER menopause? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔postmenopausal estrogen production is a product of peripheral
conversion of adrenal androstenedione (from adrenal glands.
- occurs within body fat
- the more fat a person has the less S/S they should have
because they will make more estrogen
How do you Dx menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• *Testing usually
unnecessary*
• day 2 or 3 serum FSH level >50 IU/ml
- only if still menstruating
• serum estradiol <50 pg/ml
• *amenorrhea for at least one year*
What is the DDx for menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Anxiety
• depression
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What is menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔point in time when loss of ovarian
function is followed by permanent cessation of menstruation
What is perimenopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Period of time immediately prior
to and following menopause
What is the climacteric period? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔period of waning ovarian
function when a woman passes thru the transition from reproductive years
into menopause
What is surgical menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Dramatic alterations within
days of surgery
• manifestations much *more severe than natural menopause*
***** important to treat to minimize immediate symptoms and long term
consequences
At what age is menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• *Average age 51.5 years*
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. 1
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,• Range of 48-55 years
What factors HASTEN menopause?? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Smoking
• living at high altitudes
• malnutrition, thin habitus
• family tendency (mom was early so shall you be)
What DOES NOT affect menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Oral contraceptive
use
• marital status
• parity
• race
• age at menarche
• socioeconomic status
• height
What is the Physiology of menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Fewer ovarian
follicles cause rise in FSH levels.
_ body really wants to ovulate so it amps up stimulation
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, • Increase in stromal component of ovary leads to shift in ratio from
estrogen to androgen
- more stroma= more androgens=more male hormone
How is estrogen produced AFTER menopause? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔postmenopausal estrogen production is a product of peripheral
conversion of adrenal androstenedione (from adrenal glands.
- occurs within body fat
- the more fat a person has the less S/S they should have
because they will make more estrogen
How do you Dx menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• *Testing usually
unnecessary*
• day 2 or 3 serum FSH level >50 IU/ml
- only if still menstruating
• serum estradiol <50 pg/ml
• *amenorrhea for at least one year*
What is the DDx for menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• Anxiety
• depression
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