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• TITLE: Menopause among Yemen Women

  AUTHORS: Fawzia AbdulHalim, Amat Alkhlig Mehras, Ali Assabri, Mohamed Alkobaty, Saba’a Alawadi, Ammar Albourhi

  KEYWORDS: Menopausal Age, Influencing Factors, Menopausal Symptoms, Protective Health Behaviors, Yemeni Women

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Aging Research, Vol.7 No.4, July 10, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Introduction: Age at menopause, influencing factors associated, symptoms related and protective health behavior vary among populations. Objectives: Objectives of the study were to estimate the age at menopause, identify associated factors, assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms and relate protective health behavior among Yemeni women. Methodology: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 1000 women naturally menopause aged 40 - 60 recruited from women community Centres in Sana’a city. Results: The mean age at menopause was found to be 47.8 ± 1.2 years. Significant influencing factors were genetic, biological, physical characteristics, weight, height, BMI, and physiological characteristic, such as menarche age, reproductive history, parity and abortion. Socioeconomic status had no significant influence. Most prevalent menopausal symptoms were hot flushes and sleep problems. The great majority of the women did not practice any special protective health behavior. Conclusion: Further studies on menopause phenomena are needed. Protective health behavior education efforts are made to increase women knowledge about menopause and promote menopausal women quality of life.