Endocrine Abstracts

Menopause is a state of relative hyperandrogenism resulting from the abrupt fall of estrogen levels due to ovarian senescence and the steady decline of androgen levels with aging. Frank hyperandrogenism, characterized by hyperandrogenemia and clinical hyperandrogenism, in postmenopausal women is most commonly the result of functional causes of hyperandrogenism, which usually pre-exist menopause from early reproductive years, and are aggravated by the physiological changes of m...