title: Menopause in women with learning disabilities.
abstract: A brief questionnaire concerning previous and current menstrual status was sent to 280 women over the age of 35 on the Wandsworth Register for People with Learning Disabilities: 196 questionnaires (70.4%) were returned. One hundred and seventy-one were used in the analyses; 45 were from women with Down's syndrome. The results suggested that, compared with data on normal women, menopause may occur earlier in women with learning disabilities and earlier still in women with Down's syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Division of the Psychiatry of Disability, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, England.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hollins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004314:Down Syndrome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities; D008593:Menopause / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health