Menopause and High Altitude: A Scoping Review-UIAA Medical Commission Recommendations

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21460%2F24%3A00372761" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21460/24:00372761 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0039" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0039</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0039" target="_blank" >10.1089/ham.2023.0039</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Menopause and High Altitude: A Scoping Review-UIAA Medical Commission Recommendations

Original language description

Mateikaite-Pipiriene, Kaste, Dominique Jean, Peter Paal, Lenka Horakova, Susi Kriemler, Alison J. Rosier, Marija Andjelkovic, Beth A. Beidleman, Mia Derstine, Jacqueline Pichler Hefti, David Hillebrandt, and Linda E. Keyes for the UIAA MedCom writing group on Women's Health in the Mountains. Menopause and high altitude: A scoping review-UIAA Medical Commission Recommendations. High Alt Med Biol 00:000-000, 2023.Background: Older people are an important fraction of mountain travelers and climbers, many of them postmenopausal women. The aim of this work was to review health issues that older and postmenopausal women may experience at high altitude, including susceptibility to high-altitude illness.Methods: We performed a scoping review for the UIAA Medical Commission series on Women's Health in the mountains. We searched PubMed and Cochrane libraries and performed an additional manual search. The primary search focused on articles assessing lowland women sojourning at high altitude.Results: We screened 7,165 potential articles. The search revealed three relevant articles, and the manual search another seven articles and one abstract. Seven assessed menopausal low-altitude residents during a high-altitude sojourn or performing hypoxic tests. Four assessed high-altitude residents. We summarize the results of these 11 studies.Conclusions: Data are limited on the effects of high altitude on postmenopausal women. The effects of short-term, high-altitude exposure on menopause symptoms are unknown. Menopause has minimal effect on the physiological responses to hypoxia in physically fit women and does not increase the risk of acute mountain sickness. Postmenopausal women have an increased risk of urinary tract infections, which may be exacerbated during mountain travel. More research is needed on the physiology and performance of older women at high altitude.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30230 - Other clinical medicine subjects

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

ISSN

1527-0297

e-ISSN

1557-8682

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

001138163800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85176280087