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Menopause in women with learning disabilities
Author(s) -
Carr J.,
Hollins S.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1995.tb00481.x
Subject(s) - menopause , down syndrome , learning disability , psychology , gerontology , medicine , intellectual disability , developmental psychology , psychiatry
A brief questionnaire concerning previous and current menstrual status was sent to 280 women over the age of 35 on the Wandsworth Register for People with Leaming Disabilities: 196 questionnaires (70·4%) were returned. One hundred and seventy‐one were used in the analyses; 45 were from women with Down's syndrome. The results suggested that, compared with data on normal women, menopause may occur earlier in women with leaming disabilities and earlier still in women with Down's syndrome.