Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney , Australia.
Climacteric. 2014 Feb;17(1):23-8. doi: 10.3109/13697137.2013.830607. Epub 2013 Oct 1.
There is a school of thought that believes that menopausal symptoms are a peculiarly 'Western' phenomenon, not experienced by women from other regions and particularly not from Asia where, it has been claimed, dietary, social and cultural factors afforded protection for women living in that region. More recently, studies conducted in multi-ethnic communities living in Western countries as well as in Asian communities have found that the menopause and its consequences are similar world-wide. Ethnic differences within Asia account for small differences in endogenous hormone levels and age at menopause between Asian and Western women, and the type of menopause symptoms and their prevalence also differ between those two communities. However, like in the West and perhaps because of a Western influence, the long-term health problems of postmenopausal women including cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and breast cancer are of major importance to Asian women and health services in the 21st century.
有一种观点认为，更年期症状是一种特别“西方”的现象，其他地区的女性，尤其是亚洲女性没有这种现象，据称，亚洲的饮食、社会和文化因素为生活在该地区的女性提供了保护。最近，在生活在西方国家的多民族社区以及亚洲社区进行的研究发现，更年期及其后果在全球范围内是相似的。亚洲内部的种族差异导致亚洲和西方女性的内源性激素水平和绝经年龄存在较小差异，两种人群的更年期症状类型及其流行程度也存在差异。然而，与西方一样，也许是受到西方的影响，绝经后妇女的长期健康问题，包括心血管疾病、骨质疏松症和乳腺癌，对亚洲妇女和 21 世纪的医疗保健服务来说非常重要。
