Menopausal Transition: Bothersome Symptoms Sooner Than You Expect! - Frankly Speaking Ep 262

Credits: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

CME/CE Information and Claim Credit: https://www.pri-med.com/online-education/podcast/frankly-speaking-cme-262

Overview: Join us as we discuss menopausal transition and the unique qualities and symptoms that are bothersome to women at an early age.

Episode resource links:

• Coslov, N., Richardson, M. K., & Woods, N. F. (2021). Symptom experience during the late reproductive stage and the menopausal transition: observations from the Women Living Better survey. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 28(9), 1012–1025. https://doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000001805 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34313615/

   

• ACOG Practice Guidelines: Clinical Guidelines on the Management of Menopausal Symptoms: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0901/p338.html

• Women Living Better Website:  https://womenlivingbetter.org/

• Maki, P. M., Kornstein, S. G., Joffe, H., Bromberger, J. T., Freeman, E. W., Athappilly, G., Bobo, W. V., Rubin, L. H., Koleva, H. K., Cohen, L. S., Soares, C. N., & Board of Trustees for The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) and the Women and Mood Disorders Task Force of the National Network of Depression Centers (2018). Guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of perimenopausal depression: summary and recommendations. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 25(10), 1069–1085. https://doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000001174 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30179986/

• Johnson, A., Roberts, L., & Elkins, G. (2019). Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Menopause. Journal of evidence-based integrative medicine, 24, 2515690X19829380. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515690X19829380 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419242/

• Barnard, N; Kahleova, H; Holtz, D; del Aguila, F; Neola, M; Crosby, Lelia M.& Holubkov, R (2021). The Women's Study for the Alleviation of Vasomotor Symptoms (WAVS): a randomized, controlled trial of a plant-based diet and whole soybeans for postmenopausal women, Menopause 28 (10), 1150-1156 doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001812

Guest: Jill M. Terrien PhD, ANP-BC 

Music Credit: Richard Onorato