Postmenopausal vs Perimenopause - What's the difference?
postmenopausal | perimenopause |
The physiological stage menstruating women go through when approaching menopause, when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation through a phase of atypical menstruation, and finally cease menstruating. Perimenopause ends when a woman has not menstruated for a year.
* 2009 , Robert Preidt, 'Study to Assess Hormone Therapy Before Menopause', ABC News , [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=4507681&page=1] (Mar. 23 2009):
As an adjective postmenopausal
is subsequent to the menopause.As a noun perimenopause is
the physiological stage menstruating women go through when approaching menopause, when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation through a phase of atypical menstruation, and finally cease menstruating perimenopause ends when a woman has not menstruated for a year.perimenopause
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Noun
(-)- Researchers at eight locations across the United States plan to examine the safety and effectiveness of estrogen therapy during perimenopause , the few years just prior to menopause.