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- Title
Shifting Paradigms About Hormonal Risk Factors for Postmenopausal Depression: Age at Menopause as an Indicator of Cumulative Lifetime Exposure to Female Reproductive Hormones.
- Authors
Joffe, Hadine; Bromberger, Joyce T.
- Abstract
The article discusses the association between menopausal age and reproductive period duration and post-memopausal depression. The authors note the changing paradigms on postmenopausal depression's hormonal risk factors, the implications of age and period on depression, and the consideration of menopausal age as cumulative lifetime exposure indicator to reproductive hormones.
- Subjects
POSTMENOPAUSE; MENTAL depression genetics; MENOPAUSE -- Risk factors; MENTAL depression risk factors; SEXUAL cycle; PHYSIOLOGY; AGE factors in disease; MENTAL depression; MENOPAUSE
- Publication
JAMA Psychiatry, 2016, Vol 73, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
2168-622X
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.2701