A Study on Clinical Profile of Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Emergency Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Menopausal symptoms are climacteric symptoms, hot flushes due to sudden change in the hormones levels and is not seen in women who are chronically hypo estrogenic. The term “hot flush” is descriptive of sudden onset of reddening of skin overhead, neck and chest accompanies by feeling of intense body heat and concluded by sometimes-profuse perspiration. The duration varies from few seconds to several minutes, rarely for an hour. Only 100 postmenopausal women and 100 premenopausal women and 100 premenopausal women were included after a detailed medical history and were selected on the basis of the following inclusion and exclusion criteria. The FBS of premenopausal group was 78.67 mg/dl and of postmenopausal group was 79.47 mg/dl. The PPBS of premenopausal was 97.3 mg/dl and of postmenopausal group was 97.25 mg/dl. There was no statistical difference in FBS, PPBS, between the two groups.
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Kalavathi G. P
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