ArticleJournal of women's health (2002)2015
Postmenopausal Symptoms in Female Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: Glucose Control and Symptom Severity.
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- Impact of diabetes mellitus on the menopausal experience: A scoping review.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026Article
- Insulin Levels Early in Perimenopause Inform Vasomotor Symptom Incidence Across the Menopausal Transition.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026Article
- Relation between Helicobacter pylori infection and menopausal symptoms in diabetic women.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Insulin levels early in perimenopause inform vasomotor symptom incidence across the menopausal transition.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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- Type 2 Diabetes and Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among Midlife Women.The Diabetes educator · 2019Article
- An Evidence Map of the Women Veterans' Health Research Literature (2008-2015).Journal of general internal medicine · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundWhile type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common condition of midlife women, few studies have examined its influence on the symptom features of menopause. To explore this relationship, we conducted a study of symptom patterns of diabetic patients using a random sample of female veterans receiving care in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare system.
methodsA cross-sectional comparison was conducted with three groups of postmenopausal respondents (ages 45-60 years) to a mailed national survey who also consented to clinical data access: no diabetes (n=90), diabetes with better glucose control (hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c]≤7%, n=135) and diabetes with worse glucose control (HbA1c>7%, n=102).
resultsRespondents, on average, were obese (body mass index: 33.9±0.4 kg/m(2)), 11.30±0.2 years postmenopause, with more than one chronic illness. Despite higher body mass index and increased comorbidities in women with diabetes compared with nondiabetic women, measures of mental health (anxiety, depressed mood, stress) were similar across groups. The pattern of menopause symptoms did not differ by group. Muscle aches/joint pain was the most prevalent symptom (78.6%), followed by vasomotor symptoms (74.4%). Respondents with elevated HbA1c demonstrated higher total menopausal symptom severity scores (DM-HbA1c>7: 15.4±0.8 vs. DM-HbA1c≤7%: 12.2±0.8 vs. No diabetes: 12.3±0.8; p=0.006) than the other two groups.
conclusionsIn postmenopausal female veterans with diabetes, glucose control is associated with the severity of those symptoms commonly attributed to menopause. Joint pain is an important part of the postmenopausal symptom complex in this population.
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