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Li-Yu Hu¹, Cheng-Che Shen, Jeng-Hsiu Hung

¹From the Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung (LYH, TL); School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei (LYH); Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital (C-CS); Department of Information Management, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi (C-CS); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (J-HH); School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien (J-HH); Department of Psychiatry, Yuanshan and Suao Branch, Taipei Veterans General Hospital (P-MC); Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung (C-HW); and Department of Dental Technology and Materials Science, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Y-YC).

|February 13, 2016

Abstract:

Menopausal transition is highly symptomatic in at least 20% of women. A higher prevalence of psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance, has been shown in women with symptomatic menopausal transition. However, a clear correlation between symptomatic menopausal transition and psychiatric disorders has not been established.We explored the association between symptomatic menopausal transition and subsequent newly diagnosed psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia as well as bipolar, depressive, anxiety, and sleep disorders.We investigated women who were diagnosed with symptomatic menopausal transition by an obstetrician-gynecologist according to the data in the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. A comparison cohort comprised age-matched women without symptomatic menopausal transition. The incidence rate and the hazard ratios of subsequent newly diagnosed psychiatric disorders were evaluated in both cohorts, based on the diagnoses of psychiatrists.The symptomatic menopausal transition and control cohorts each consisted of 19,028 women. The incidences of bipolar disorders (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.69, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.01-2.80), depressive disorders (HR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.93-2.45), anxiety disorders (HR = 2.11, 95% CI = 1.84-2.41), and sleep disorders (HR = 2.01, 95% CI = 1.73-2.34) were higher among the symptomatic menopausal transition women than in the comparison cohort. After stratifying for follow-up duration, the incidence of newly diagnosed bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and sleep disorders following a diagnosis of symptomatic menopausal transition remained significantly increased in the longer follow-up groups (1-5 and ≥ 5 years).Symptomatic menopausal transition might increase the risk of subsequent newly onset bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and sleep disorders. A prospective study is necessary to confirm these findings.

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