The quality of life in women according to climacteric syndrome

Objective. To give a clinical portrait of and to assess their quality of life in patients with menopausal syndrome versus those with urogenital atrophic infections and osteoporosis. Subject and methods. One hundred and six women with menopausal syndrome, including 48 patients with urogenital atrophic disorders, 113 with osteoporosis, and 64 with physiological normal climacterium, were examined. The SF-36 health survey questionnaire was used to assess quality of life in the patients. Results. Comparison of the clinical portrait of the women revealed that menopause occurred in them earlier than in Russia’s female population as a whole. All the patients had a poor obstetric/gynecological history. The proportion of somatic diseases was a maximum in patients with osteoporosis and in those with physiological normal climacterium. Conclusion. The highest quality-of-life indices were detected in the women with physiological normal climacterium and in those with menopausal syndrome; the moderate and lowest indices were seen in osteoporosis and urogenital atrophic disorders, respectively.

quality of life, menopausal syndrome, urogenital atrophic disorders, osteoporosis