Endocrine Abstracts

The adult female life could be divided into three broad phases: reproductive, perimenopause and postmenopause. The perimenopause starts 2 years before last bleeding and the postmenopause begins 12 months after amenorrhea (Harlow SD y Group 2012). Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of mortality in postmenopausal women and the factors that increase cardiovascular risk are well known but there is no evidence of relationship between menopause and cardiometabolic changes. Som...