title: Effects of calci soya balance and vitagnus on menopausal symptoms.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Menopause is a period of women's lives with changes and symptoms that affect their work, sleep and quality of life. Therefore, it is important to overcome these symptoms.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of Calci soya balance and Vitagnus on menopausal symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  This double-blinded controlled trial study was performed in public health centers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2011-2012). Seventy postmenopausal women with menopausal symptoms were randomly divided into two groups of treatments with Vitagnus and Calci soya balance. Data were collected using interviews, answering Cooperman's index questionnaires before four and eight weeks after the treatment. Descriptive and analytic statistics were used for analyzing the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In both groups, Wilcoxon test showed a significant decrease in the mean of Cooperman's menopausal index as well as after four and eight weeks of treatment (P = 0.000). Mann-Whitney test did not show any significant differences between the two groups, before and after four and eight weeks of treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that both Vitagnus and Calci soya balance were effective on reduction of menopausal symptoms to a similar extent and medical community can administer each of these two drugs based on patients' conditions and costs.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shahnaz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Golian Tehrani
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shahin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bazzazian
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Azam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bakhtiarian
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghobadzadeh
keywords: Clinical Trial; Menopause; Soybeans; Tehran; Vitagnus