title: Menopause.
abstract: Public awareness of the benefits of a healthy transition through menopausal and postmenopausal stages offers women a new perspective on aging and empowers them to take greater responsibility for their own health and well-being. Primary care physicians are a chief influence on information regarding health behaviors, risk assessment, and medical interventions that preserve health and that prevent premature death and disability. Clinicians can help identify therapy goals for short-term relief of menopausal symptoms and long-term relief and prevention of osteoporosis and fractures. Physicians must consider individual needs and concerns and be cognizant that because a woman's needs can change, re-evaluation is needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, USA. weismillerd@ecu.edu
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Weismiller
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D047648:Perimenopause; D017698:Postmenopause; D012307:Risk Factors; D014666:Vasomotor System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016387:Women's Health