Critical review of complementary and alternative medicine use in menopause

Peng, Wenbo; Adams, Jon; Sibbritt, David; Frawley, Jane

doi:10.1097/gme.0b013e3182a46a3e

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“…The systematic review analyses the contemporary scholarship using an established approach developed for a number of health research topics. [16][17][18] search strategy Peer-reviewed articles reporting on TCAM use in Sub-Saharan Africa were searched using the following databases: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, Scopus, ProQuest, Medline, PubMed, African Journals Online, Embase and Google Scholar. Hand searching in the bibliography of relevant articles was also employed to help ensure the capture of all relevant peer-reviewed literature.…”

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Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

James

Wardle

Steel

et al. 2019

Advances in Integrative Medicine

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Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

James

Wardle

Steel

et al. 2019

Advances in Integrative Medicine

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“…However, the Women’s Health Initiative study conducted in 2002 indicated that MHT increases cardiovascular risk, and that, overall, its harm exceeds its benefits [ 15 ]. This sparked a great deal of concern over effective non-hormone therapies, including prescription and nonprescription therapies [ 16 , 17 ]. Prescription therapies, prime examples of which are plant-based therapies and herbal medicinal products, have been systematically reviewed; they produce a modest reduction in the frequency of vaginal dryness and hot flashes but no significant reduction in night sweats [ 18 , 19 ].…”

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Exercise and Quality of Life in Women with Menopausal Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Nguyen

Thanh

Tran

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Menopausal symptoms are associated with deterioration in physical, mental, and sexual health, lowering women’s quality of life (QoL). Our study objective is to examine the effect of exercise on QoL in women with menopausal symptoms. After initially identifying 1306 studies published on PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane Library before June 2020, two researchers independently selected nine randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in which any type of exercise was compared with no active treatment. We assessed the risk of bias in the included studies using the Cochrane risk-of-bias 2.0 tool for RCTs and computed the converged standardized mean difference with a 95% confidence interval. We found evidences for the positive effects of exercise on physical and psychological QoL scores in women with menopausal symptoms. However, there was no evidence for the effects of exercise on general, social, and menopause-specific QoL scores. The most common interventions for women with menopausal and urinary symptoms were yoga and pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), respectively. In our meta-analyses, while yoga significantly improved physical QoL, its effects on general, psychological, sexual, and vasomotor symptoms QoL scores as well as the effect of PFMT on general QoL were not significant. Our findings suggest that well-designed studies are needed to confirm the effect of exercise on QoL in women with menopausal symptoms.

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“…As a consequence, a spread of non-hormonal therapies is observed: data from different surveys show that around 30%–80% of women with HFs employ non-hormonal treatments [11–13]. The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies is increasing as showed by the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, being 48.5% in 2002 and 80% in 2008 [11].…”

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Non-hormonal strategies for managing menopausal symptoms in cancer survivors: an update

Biglia

Bounous

Seta

et al. 2019

ecancer

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Vasomotor symptoms, particularly hot flushes (HFs), are the most frequently reported symptom by menopausal women. In particular, for young women diagnosed with breast cancer, who experience premature ovarian failure due to cancer treatments, severe HFs are an unsolved problem that strongly impacts on quality of life. The optimal management of HFs requires a personalised approach to identify the treatment with the best benefit/risk profile for each woman. Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) is effective in managing HFs but it is contraindicated in women with previous hormone-dependent cancer. Moreover, many healthy women are reluctant to take HRT and prefer to manage symptoms with non-hormonal strategies. In this narrative review, we provide an update on the current available non-oestrogenic strategies for HFs management for women who cannot, or do not wish to, take oestrogens. Since isoflavones have oestrogenic properties and it is not known if they can be safely consumed by women with previous hormone-dependent cancer, they were excluded. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors/selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, as well as other neuroactive agents, some herbal remedies and behavioural strategies are considered.

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Critical review of complementary and alternative medicine use in menopause

Cited by 52 publications

References 90 publications

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Exercise and Quality of Life in Women with Menopausal Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Non-hormonal strategies for managing menopausal symptoms in cancer survivors: an update

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