postmenopausal
Britishadjective
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Hormone therapy remains the most effective first-line option for relieving common menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, which affect up to 75% of postmenopausal women.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
Back in the 1950s, she said: "There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman."
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026
The study of 16,608 postmenopausal women taking HRT mostly looked at women between the ages of 50 and 79; the average age was 63.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
Conjugated equine estrogen—made from the urine of horses and used in the WHI study—decreases breast-cancer risk in postmenopausal women when used without progesterone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
He said to her, “If we're not getting demand for postmenopausal women, but we are for men, we meet the demand and supply it.”
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025
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