postmenopausal

British  

/ ˌpəʊstmɛnəʊˈpɔːzəl /

adjective

1. existing or taking place after the menopause

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Example Sentences

"This study provides important insights for developing more effective and personalized strategies for managing cardiometabolic risk in postmenopausal women," says Regina Castaneda, M.D., postdoctoral research fellow at Mayo Clinic and first author of the study.

From Science Daily

Then, in 2002, a government-funded clinical trial on postmenopausal women and HRT was halted after early findings that hormone therapy posed a number of health risks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back in the 1950s, she said: "There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman."

From BBC

The reluctance to use HRT is the result of a controversial 2002 study that identified an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

From MarketWatch

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