Abstract

COUTO NUNEZ, Dayana  and  NAPOLES MENDEZ, Danilo. Climacteric syndrome in middle-aged women from a social medical approach. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.8, pp. 1185-1194. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in order to describe the main clinical manifestations of the climacteric syndrome in 341 middle-aged women, who attended the specialized care for climacteric and menopause of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2009 to May 2012. The average age of patients in the perimenopausal stage was 47.2 years, while in postmenopausal women was found to be 49.4 years. The Cuban climacteric scale was applied from a social medical approach. In the artificial postmenopause, the symptoms were very bothersome for 69.1 % of those affected; also, hot flashes prevailed in 88.2 %, followed by the night sweats in 82.7 % of them. Depression and insomnia were among the most significant psychological symptoms, with 84.7 and 78.0 %, respectively. Natural medicine and hormone replacement therapy were the main treatment modalities.

Keywords : woman; middle age; climacteric syndrome; perimenopause; postmenopause; natural medicine; hormonal replacement therapy; secondary health care.

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