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Edited by Robert Lindsay, David W. Dempster, and V. Craig Jordan. 288 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott–Raven, 1997. $95. ISBN 0-397-51719-X.

Menopause is often of the utmost importance in a woman's life. Years before the last menstrual period, the transition from fertility to sterility can leave its mark. For many women this time of life is one of blood (disorders of the menstrual cycle), sweat (hot flashes and night sweats), and tears (mood swings). During the climacteric, urogenital symptoms such as vaginal dryness start, and bone loss suddenly accelerates to rates unknown in males, protected as they are for much longer by their testosterone levels. Estrogens, or rather decreased estrogen levels, are to blame for all this, and for all that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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