✅RELEVANCE
✅️️UNIT 11 – PAPER 1
Menopause
✅Case study:
🎯Study by: Kate.M.Bermingham et al., in 2022
📌 Objective:
To evaluate menopause associated metabolic health and lifestyle.
✅ Methodology:
• Assessed phenotypic characteristics, anthropometric, diet and gut microbiome data, and fasting and postprandial (0–6 h) cardiometabolic blood measurements, including continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data in certain cohort and post-menopausal women and the data is compared and analyzed.
✅ Results:
Postmenopausal females had higher fasting blood measures compared to premenopausal women.
✅ Conclusion:
• In-depth nutrition metabolic study of menopause, support the importance of monitoring risk factors for type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in mid-life to older women to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with estrogen decline.