Menopause Not Associated With Universal Risk for Depression, Review Shows

APA ’s Good Faith Estimates Survey: Please Respond TodayThe No Surprises Actrequires clinicians to provide patients who are uninsured or are insured but choose not to submit claims through their health plan with a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has asked APA for your feedback on efforts to comply with these requirements and any educational support you may need from CMS. The deadline isFriday, March 8.TAKE SURVEYThe transition into menopause by itself does not appear to raise the risk of depression in women, according to areview inThe Lancet. However, a subset of women with a history of depression and/or certain menopause-related risk factors may be vulnerable to depressive symptoms during this period.“Clinicians should not assume that psychological symptoms during the menopause transition are always attributable to hormonal changes,” wrote Lydia Brown, Ph.D., M.Psych., of the University of Melbourne and colleagues. “Potential misattribution of psychological distress and psychiatric disorde rs to menopause could harm women by delaying accurate diagnosis and the initiation of effective psychotropic treatments, and by creating negative expectations for people approaching menopause.”Brown and colleagues analyzed 12 prospective studies reporting depressive symptoms, major depressive disorder, or both for more than 25,000 women during the menopause transition. Only two of the studies, totaling around 600 women, used...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: depression depressive symptoms hormonal changes menopause The Lancet transition women Source Type: research