What you need to know about the relationship between menopause and heart failure. When Ann Ramirez Duda felt too exhausted and winded to keep up with her job teaching gymnastics, she thought it might be her asthma acting up, or stress from caring for her dying father. When she woke up ...

Mood swings. Hot flashes. Night sweats. Bad sleep. These are all debilitating symptoms of menopause, but now new research suggests they can start long before a woman stops having periods. ...

There are two phases of changing hormones leading to menopause, and the first begins when periods are still coming monthly. When do hormonal patterns start to change? ...

One-third of a woman’s life in developed countries is spent beyond menopause. Although the term menopause is often used loosely to describe the entire time frame of a woman’s midlife changes, there are different stages to menopause and the transition is often incremental. ...

n this presentation Dr. Cortés will provide an overview of the current evidence linking reproductive health, from menarche thru postmenopause, to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in midlife women and beyond. ...