How to Use postmenopausal in a Sentence

postmenopausal

adjective

• Why were postmenopausal women given hormones in the first place?
  — Christina Boufis, Woman's Day, 19 Aug. 2010
• Today a woman can expect to live for 81 years – which means decades of postmenopausal lifetime.
  — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• All these postmenopausal women fell within the normal range of Body Mass Index.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 July 2019
• In postmenopausal women, most estrogen is produced and stored in fat cells.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2020
• And being overweight or obese throughout adulthood may increase the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, the researchers found in the new report.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 23 May 2017
• But by their 50s, most women have reached perimenopause; by their 60s, almost all are postmenopausal.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• Sixteen years ago, its lead product was a cream for postmenopausal women dealing with hot flashes.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
• Their goal is to figure out a way to enable postmenopausal women to reap the full benefits of endurance training—and their suggestion is to donate blood.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2022
• Twenty-four were premenopausal; 24 were perimenopausal; and 24 were postmenopausal.
  — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
• Visceral fat has been linked to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, which is one of the leading causes of death in postmenopausal women.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2022
• Contraceptive use did not seem to affect the risk for postmenopausal colorectal or breast cancer.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• These two facts highlight why bone breaks in this postmenopausal population are so prolific.
  — Andreas Arauer, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
• Having too much iron in your blood can mean a greater risk of developing cancer, especially for men and postmenopausal women.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2018
• Research also suggests that too much salt can negatively affect bone health in young girls and postmenopausal women.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018
• Brain aneurysms are also more common among women than men, especially postmenopausal women.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Mar. 2019
• This is most often true for postmenopausal women, as a lack of estrogen can impact the production of other nutrients in the body, according to the Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Jan. 2020
• Nearly a third of postmenopausal women who took a valerian capsule twice daily for four weeks reported better sleep quality, found one study.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
• Other animals like fish, amphibians and most reptiles produce eggs throughout their lives, so their females will never experience menopause or live in a postmenopausal state.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2021
• Even though calcium is a key nutrient for bone health — particularly for postmenopausal women — Cassetty says the vast majority of people in the U.S. don’t get enough.
  — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2022
• The country needs more accessible, comprehensive women’s healthcare to treat everything from the menstrual pains of adolescents to the hot flashes of postmenopausal grannies, Gupta said.
  — Rachel Scheier California Healthline, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Are studies that suggest eating prunes daily might delay or prevent osteoporosis for postmenopausal women valid?
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 June 2022
• Either ultrasound or biopsy is a reasonable first step in excluding uterine cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2021
• Randomized control trials of postmenopausal women have tried to assess whether hormone therapy decreased the risk of Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive declines, but these have returned mixed results so far.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• Something to do with uteri or double X’s or estrogen — never mind the millions of women (postmenopausal, post-hysterectomied, infertile or living with Turner syndrome) who would not fit those definitions.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• Postmenopausal women, meanwhile, demonstrated a 9% risk increase.
  — Theo Thimou, ajc, 23 May 2017
• Research by the team led by Dr. Clancy found unusual menstrual bleeding among some postmenopausal women, as well as among those who had stopped having periods as a result of using contraceptives or taking hormones.
  — Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• If menopause is a recent phenomenon, then scientists have a harder time arguing that postmenopausal grandmothers have so strongly shaped human evolution.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2021
• The rash or legions may also be accompanied by vulvar pain, depending on the specific condition causing it, and it’s most common in postmenopausal women, though younger women can also experience it.
  — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2022
• Calcium supplements, which many postmenopausal women take to boost bone density, may also inhibit zinc absorption.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• If vigorous exercise isn’t possible, moderate physical activity has also been shown to reduce the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
  — Theo Thimou, ajc, 23 May 2017

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