Depressive symptoms across the menopause transition: findings from a large population-based cohort study

Conclusions: Depressive symptoms follow distinct trajectories across the menopause transition. Most women have stable symptoms, but around 9% have increasing symptoms and a similar proportion (8.5%) decreasing symptoms. Increasing depressive symptoms were independent of vasomotor symptoms but were associated with oophorectomy and stopping or starting hormone therapy. A large number of women were excluded due to missing data, and thus the results should be interpreted with caution.
Source: Menopause - Category: OBGYN Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research