Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago

Background: During menopause the quality of life of women can be seriously deteriorated and influenced by lifestyles. Aim: To assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms and their relationship with lifestyles and quality of life. Material and Methods: The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), a survey that...

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Autores principales:	López-Alegría,Fanny, Soares De Lorenzi,Dino Roberto
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2011
Materias:	Life style Menopause Quality of life
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720110005000092011-09-16Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, SantiagoLópez-Alegría,FannySoares De Lorenzi,Dino Roberto Life style Menopause Quality of life Background: During menopause the quality of life of women can be seriously deteriorated and influenced by lifestyles. Aim: To assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms and their relationship with lifestyles and quality of life. Material and Methods: The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), a survey that measures menopausal symptoms and has questions related to lifestyles, was applied to 1023 women aged 54 ± 6years (range 45 to 64years), consulting in primary health care clinics. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the association between menopausal symptoms and lifestyle. Results: Fifty six percent of women did not have a paid work, 64% were nonsmokers and 90% did not perform any physical exercise. The most frequent menopausal symptoms referred were muscle and joint ailments (85%) followed by mental and physical exhaustion (80%). Sedentary women, smokers or those who did not to have time for leisure activities showed worst quality of life scores. Conclusions: Postmenopausal women with unhealthy lifestyles had the lower quality of life scores and more menopausal symptoms.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.139 n.5 20112011-05-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000500009es10.4067/S0034-98872011000500009
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spellingShingle	Life style Menopause Quality of life López-Alegría,Fanny Soares De Lorenzi,Dino Roberto Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
description	Background: During menopause the quality of life of women can be seriously deteriorated and influenced by lifestyles. Aim: To assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms and their relationship with lifestyles and quality of life. Material and Methods: The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), a survey that measures menopausal symptoms and has questions related to lifestyles, was applied to 1023 women aged 54 ± 6years (range 45 to 64years), consulting in primary health care clinics. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the association between menopausal symptoms and lifestyle. Results: Fifty six percent of women did not have a paid work, 64% were nonsmokers and 90% did not perform any physical exercise. The most frequent menopausal symptoms referred were muscle and joint ailments (85%) followed by mental and physical exhaustion (80%). Sedentary women, smokers or those who did not to have time for leisure activities showed worst quality of life scores. Conclusions: Postmenopausal women with unhealthy lifestyles had the lower quality of life scores and more menopausal symptoms.
author	López-Alegría,Fanny Soares De Lorenzi,Dino Roberto
author_facet	López-Alegría,Fanny Soares De Lorenzi,Dino Roberto
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title	Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
title_short	Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
title_full	Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
title_fullStr	Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
title_full_unstemmed	Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago
title_sort	síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, santiago
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2011
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Síntomas climatéricos y calidad de vida de usuarias de consultorios de atención primaria de salud, Santiago

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