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By Amy Petty
Times-Democrat Writer
Menopause ... just the thought of it triggers a myriad of emotions in women, no matter their age. The uncertainties of what the onset of menopause will bring can cause fear, unease and confusion.
But advances in medical science have enabled women to meet the transition with a wealth of knowledge and treatments.
“The change,” as menopause is often called, is defined as the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles, and is complete when she has not menstruated for one full year. The average age of a woman entering menopause is 51, but symptoms often begin up to five to seven years earlier.
In 1900, only 5 percent of women lived to reach menopause. Today, 75 percent of women live one-third of their lives after completing menopause.
As a woman nears menopause, her ovaries produce less and less estrogen, culminating in then end of estro[p
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