Description
Several medical conditions peak at the same age and stage as (peri)menopause in women and to add to the confusion, many of their signs & symptoms overlap with those that might be solely attributed to these reproductive stages. This means that they are frequently missed or misattributed leaving many women to have incomplete resolution of their distressing presentations and unacceptable unchecked elevated risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular, metabolic & neurodegenerative disease. This second instalment is a detailed discussion of Perimenopausal Depression (PeriD) & a sex specific form of Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) and includes a great desktop resource summarising key overlapping features & easy accessible ways to confirm or exclude these in your patients.
