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At the outset of this report on the workshop devoted to the pre-menopause it seems wise to explain exactly what is meant by the term ‘pre-menopause’. Simply put, menopause denotes the final menstrual bleeding. The time closest to this event is called the peri-menopause, before that there is the pre-menopause, and after it the post-menopause. The pre-menopause does not cover the whole of the woman’s life before the menopause, but merely the time (a) from around 40 years of age when a woman can reasonably be said to be approaching the menopause, or (b) when a woman feels the approach of the menopause, by experiencing pre-menopausal irregularities in her menstrual cycle or other ‘menopausal’ or ‘climacteric’ symptoms.
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van Keep, P.A., Utian, W.H., Vermeulen, A. (1982). The pre-menopause. In: van Keep, P.A., Utian, W.H., Vermeulen, A. (eds) The Controversial Climacteric. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7253-0_2
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