What's the difference between menstruation and perimenopause?
Menstruation
Definition:
(n.) The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen of the 23 women (78%) had been unable to work during the first day of menstruation, the rate of working days lost was reduced to 4% with ketoprofen and 9 with indomethacin.
(2) Heparin-like activity increased throughout the menstrual cycle and decreased during menstruation, suggesting a possible cyclical variation in activity.
(3) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
(4) Estrogen receptors are more frequently found in post-menopausal women than in women who are still menstruating.
(5) The voice of the womb manifests itself in the language of menstruation.
(6) Although there are several advantages for both the physician and patient to the IUD insertion during menstruation, there is no valid reason to delay insertion if the patient requests an IUD at any other time during her menstrual cycle.
(7) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
(8) Menstruation reoccurred within 21 days of treatment for 98%.
(9) The Depression Adjective Check List, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and a battery of factor analytically derived cognitive tests sensitive to anxiety or depression were administered to 50 women between the ages of 30 and 45 during the 4 days prior to the onset of menstruation and again 2 weeks later.
(10) The PMS women peaked on the day prior to menstruation, while the non-PMS women peaked on the first day of menstruation.
(11) When 15% was used as a single figure to represent the optimal, long-term bioavailability of iron in a general Western-type diet, the 95th percentiles of dietary iron requirements were 18.9 mg in adult menstruating women and 21.4 mg in menstruating teenagers.
(12) For young girls, or where conception is not desired, substitution treatment with an estrogen-progesterone combination is recommended, to prevent further hypoplasia of the internal genitals; in cases where estrogen production is sufficient, cyclic treatment with progesterone is enough to induce menstruation.
(13) A total of 35 menstruating women undergoing ovariectomy were randomly divided into five groups of 7 patients each, receiving a 4-week treatment with oral clonidine, lisuride and sodium valproate, transdermal 17 beta-estradiol, or placebo.
(14) RU-486 can be successfully used to regulate menstruation, especially in populations without access to medical are and pregnancy tests, and it may appeal to women who prefer not to know their status.
(15) Plasma concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP) were measured in a cross-sectional study of asymptomatic normal menstruating women (n = 94) who obtained Pap smears and participated in a double-blinded nutritional survey.
(16) Not only menstruating girls using tampons, but also quite young children can acquire this disease.
(17) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
(18) In both groups the level declined during menstruation before the increase of endogenous female sex hormone levels.
(19) The data indicated that those patients who had sickle cell crises were significantly older and had been menstruating longer, with heavier periods.
(20) The reduction in MBL during OC use was most apparent during the first 2 days of menstruation.
Perimenopause
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No significant correlations were noted between serum hormone levels during the perimenopausal period.
(2) This altered pattern of estrogen binding in perimenopausal tumors likely results from the hormonal changes of the menopausal and late premenopausal years.
(3) 147 stage II pre- and perimenopausal breast cancer patients were treated with cyclophosphamide-methotrexate-5-fluorouracil (CMF)- based adjuvant regimens.
(4) The four women with normal luteal function had castrate estrogen levels following regression of the corpus luteum, whereas one woman with an abnormal luteal phase and perimenopausal levels of gonadotropins had an agonistic response.
(5) The changes in serum concentrations of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), estradiol (E2), and progesterone (P) during menstrual cycles in a group of perimenopausal women were compared with the findings in young normal women.
(6) When comparing this type of tumors, named locally advanced cancer with inflammatory component, to other locally advanced cancers, some remarkable differences are found: there is a preponderance of younger patients, premenopausal or perimenopausal, with a greater percentage of poorly differentiated tumors and negative estrogen receptors.
(7) Controversy surrounds the optimal use of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) for the management of vasomotor instability and other perimenopausal symptoms.
(8) The net resource costs and net health benefits of treating perimenopausal women with hormone replacement therapy were evaluated within the framework of cost-effectiveness analysis.
(9) The principal means of evaluating perimenopausal bleeding is endometrial biopsy performed in the office.
(10) All the turnover variables were measured in a group of perimenopausal women (n = 33).
(11) In the large group of patients with localized disease the association with radiation was obvious for all ages combined (irradiated RR = 3.0, not irradiated RR = 1.6), but not obvious among premenopausal (age less than 45 years) and perimenopausal (age 45-54 years) women at primary breast cancer until followed for 20 years.
(12) Sclerosing adenosis was most frequent in the perimenopausal period and had a weak association with family history of IBC.
(13) Forty-three perimenopausal women kept daily records of menstrual cycles and sexual activity.
(14) This case suggests that some perimenopausal women may respond to their own endogenous elevated gonadotropins as if they are taking ovulation-inducing drugs and may, as a consequence, form multiple follicles.
(15) Estriol (E3) and estradiol (E2) was given to 81 women with perimenopausal complaints.
(16) Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated an increase in complaints of depressed mood and other minor psychological changes from patients in the perimenopause.
(17) A perimenopausal woman presented with a calcific adnexal mass seen on abdominal radiography, surgical exploration revealed no gross evidence of metastatic disease.
(18) The exact mechanism for these totally different responses to leuprolide acetate in two perimenopausal women is not known.
(19) The literature concerning malignancy developing in extragonadal endometriosis has been reviewed and is summarized as follows: 1) 45 cases have been compiled, of which 32 were carcinomas and 13 sarcomas; 2) adenocarcinoma was the most common histologic type, although virtually every tumor of müllerian derivation has been described; 3) the typical patient was nulliparous and perimenopausal; 4) the rectovaginal septum was the most common site, and in general the frequency of malignancy in a given site parallels the frequency of endometriosis in that location; 5) simultaneous tumors of the uterus or ovary were present in seven cases (15%); 6) prognosis appeared affected by site and histologic type; 7) a history of prior pelvic irradiation to effect castration was present in three (9%) of the patients with adenocarcinoma; and 8) four (12%) of the patients with adenocarcinoma were subjected to exogenous estrogens or estrogen-secreting ovarian tumors.
(20) Many of these women are now perimenopausal and therefore entering the age of risk for ovarian neoplasia.