Climacteric symptoms in middle-aged women with chronic somatic diseases.

Objectives: Chronic diseases may aggravate or simulate climacteric symptoms. Although acknowledged in clinical practice, there is a lack of research systematically analysing the association between chronic diseases and climacteric symptoms.

Study Design And Main Outcome Measures: Our study was a cross-sectional population-based study, which included 3421 women, aged 41-54 years.

A population-based survey of quality of life in middle-aged Finnish women.

Objective: Factors that cause a decrease in quality of life (QoL) among middle-aged women are contradictory. Given that previous studies have been presumably performed in ethnically heterogeneous populations, we evaluated the impact of socioeconomic and lifestyle factors on QoL in Finnish women because the Finnish population is ethnically homogenous.

Methods: A total of 6,408 women (aged 41-54 y) who were called for municipal screening mammography received a postal survey concerning their health-related issues.