Comparison of Anogenital Distance and Correlation with Vulvo-vaginal Atrophy: A Pilot Study on Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women.

Lavinia DomeniciAngela MusellaCarlotta BracchiFrancesca LecceMichele Carlo SchiaviVanessa ColagiovanniViolante Di DonatoClaudia MarchettiFederica TomaoInnocenza PalaiaLudovico MuziiPierluigi Benedetti Panici

Published in: Journal of menopausal medicine (2018)

This study confirms that AGD in post-menopausal women was significantly shorter than AGD in premenopausal women, correlating with an increase of VVA and sexual impairment. Changes of AGD and AGI demonstrated to predict hormonal changes that may occur after menopause.

Keyphrases

postmenopausal women
polycystic ovary syndrome
bone mineral density
breast cancer risk
insulin resistance
cervical cancer screening
mental health
type diabetes
skeletal muscle