Posts Tagged ‘Menopause’
Pre-menopause Symptoms
Pre-menopause symptoms may be hot flashes, irregular menstrual cycles, heavy bleeding or poor, interrupted sleep, mood swings and depression, loss of short-term memory, unexplained fatigue and vaginal dryness. During this stage take place a series of complex changes in the balance of hormones that regulate and control the menstrual cycle.
Dr. Valenzuela stressed the importance of early detection of pre-menopause, which can reduce health problems in women and live this new stage, similar to the better understanding adolescence.
‘Those Moments’ is a test that can be performed in women aged 40 years and in just 10 minutes to know if they are already pre-menopause, a stage that usually between 40 and 47 years.
It is a urine test, fast and easy to use, for the detection of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH, for its acronym in English).
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Suffer a Bone Fracture Due to Osteoporosis
One in two women and one in four men over age 50 will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis
A quarter of people who break a hip die within the first anniversary of the injury. A study of the Spanish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology warns that one in two women and one in four men over age 50 will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis. The broken bone is the result “more serious” of this disease as “one of every four people who fracture a hip die before the year,” said study coordinator, Dr. Manuel Mesa Ramos.
The researchers stressed the importance of preventing a disorder that affects a majority of females from menopause. Once menstruation is lost, it creates a deficit in the production of estrogen or female hormones that, among other functions, has a mission to fix calcium to the bones. This explains why the patient type of osteoporosis is a woman who is over 60 years and goes to the consultation because it hurts his back, in the area of the dorsal vertebrae, the height of the blades, detailed the department head of Orthopedic Surgery Chiron and Traumatology Hospital of Bilbao, Inaki MÃnguez. Read the rest of this entry »
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