| Titre : | Is there a menopausal syndrome ? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups. (2001) |
| Auteurs : | Nancy-E AVIS ; Joyce BROMBERGER ; Virginia CAIN ; Sybil CRAWFORD ; Patricia GANZ ; Marjorie KAGAWA-SINGER ; Rebecca STELLATO ; New England Research Institutes. Watertown. MA. USA |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 52, n° 3, 2001) |
| Pagination : | 345-356 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Ménopause ; Symptôme ; Race ; Ethnie ; Homme ; Femme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Epidémiologie ; Amérique du Nord |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 8R0xkNjp. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by women as they progress from premenopausal to postmenopausal status. However, most of these studies have been conducted among Caucasian women from western cultures. This leaves open the question of whether the findings from these studies can be extended to women of other racial/ethnic groups or cultures. Furthermore, many of the previous studies have been conducted on relatively small samples. This paper addresses the diversity of the menopause experience by comparing symptom reporting in a large cross-sectional survey of women aged 40-55 years among racial/ethnic groups of women in the United States (Caucasian, African-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Hispanic). Evaluation of the extent to which symptoms group together and consistently relate to menopausal status across these five samples provides evidence for or against a universal menopausal syndrome. (...) |
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