Senior Lecturer, Department of Gynaecology, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH.
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The symptomatology of the climacteric in relation to hormonal and cytological factors
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb05279.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 91, Issue 1, pages 56–62, January 1984
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JAMES, C. E., BREESON, A. J., KOVACS, G., HILL, J. G., GRANT, C., ALLEN, K. M., FRY, D. E. and BAYLIS, E. M. (1984), The symptomatology of the climacteric in relation to hormonal and cytological factors. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 91: 56–62. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb05279.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received 26 April 1983; Accepted 5 July 1983
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Summary. Climacteric symptomatology was investigated in a group of non-selected women aged between 54 and 56 years of age, Vasomotor complaints and dyspareunia, in particular, were noted and related to plasma hormone levels and vaginal cytology. Only 33% of those women who were within 5 years of the menopause had symptoms of a magnitude that might require hormone replacement therapy. Neither the vasomotor complaints nor dyspareunia correlated with the hormone levels or cytology findings to such an extent as to be helpful in planning treatment. Aarently only a minority of women in their middle 50s demonstrate a symptomatic need for hormone replacement therapy and laboratory investigations are of little use in their identification.