Postmenopausal symptoms among Egyptian geripausal women

Increases in life expectancies mean that women are spending longer periods of their life in a hypo-oestrogenic state. A cross-sectional study was designed to assess the prevalence of postmenopausal symptoms among elderly Egyptian women in the geripausal phase. A sample of 400 community-dwelling elderly women aged > 65 years were recruited from 6 geriatric social clubs in Cairo. A full personal and medical history was taken from all participants. The menopause rating scale was applied to all participants after translation and linguistic validation in the Arabic language. The most prevalent postmenopausal symptoms were joint pain [90.3%], followed by sleep problems [84.0%] and physical and mental exhaustion [80.0%]. A statistically significant positive correlation was found between total menopause rating scale score and age, duration of menopause andj number of chronic diseases but not with age of menopause

Comparative study of apoproteins A and B in diabetic and nondiabetic elderly

A clinical thesis was done to study the effect of diabetes mellitus on lipid profile of the elderly particularly apoprotein Al, being the major apoprotein of HDL, and apoprotein B, being the major apoprotein of LDL. The outpatient clinic of Geriatric department of Ain Shams University hospitals was chosen as a scene for this thesis. The lipid profile in diabetic elderly shown by this study is,. increase in cholesterol level, increase in triglyceride level, low HDL level, high LDL, low apo-Al level and increase in apoB as compared to non diabetic elderly. 25% of the diabetics in this study have high cholesterol level as compared to 10% in non diabetics. 15% of the diabetics have high level of'triglycerides as compared to only 5% of the non diabetics. 35% of diabetics have low HDL as compared to 10% in nondiabetics. As for LDL, 15% of the diabetics have high LDL level as comnpared to 5% of non diabetics, 20% of the diabetics tend to have low apo-Al level as compared to only 5% of the non diabetics. As for apoprotein B, 85% of the diabetics have normal level of apo-B, with only 10% of the diabetics having low level of apo-B as compared to 15% of non diabetics. However the mean level of apo-B among diabetics 96.4mg/dl was greater than among non diabetics 78. 7 mg/dl. There were sex variations of the lipid profile of both groups with the females having higher cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and apo-Al levels and lower LDL and apo-B levels than males