The effect of soy dietary supplement and low dose of hormone therapy on main cardiovascular health biomarkers: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: To assess the effects of a soy dietary supplement on the main biomarkers of cardiovascular health in postmenopausal women compared with the effects of low-dose hormone therapy (HT) and placebo.

Methods: Double-blind, randomized and controlled intention-to-treat trial. Sixty healthy postmenopausal women, aged 40-60 years, 4.

Use of misoprostol prior to hysteroscopy in postmenopausal women: a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Study Objective: To compare results of diagnostic hysteroscopy in postmenopausal women using misoprostol for cervical ripening.

Design: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial (Canadian Task Force classification Ib).

Setting: Hospital Barão de Lucena, Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco.

Ovarian volume, age, and menopausal status.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to verify whether ovarian volume differs according to chronological age and menopausal status in healthy women and to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of ovarian volume alone and ovarian volume associated with age in predicting menopausal status.

Design: The participants in this study were premenopausal (n = 121) and postmenopausal (n = 71) women between 40 and 55 years of age who were interviewed about social, demographic, and medical conditions. These women underwent transvaginal ultrasound to determine ovarian volume.

[Climacteric syndrome: a population-based study in Campinas, SP, Brazil].

Objectives: To study the prevalence of climacteric, urogenital and sexual symptoms in a population of Brazilian women.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive population-based study was conducted. The selection of 456 women aged 45-60 years, living in Campinas, SP, in 1997, was done through area cluster sampling, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.