Menopause in highland Guatemala Mayan women
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Menopause in highland Guatemala Mayan women
Menopause is a complex biologic phenomenon embedded in a sociocultural and psychologic context that may affect the experience of this normal life event [1]. Studies of women undergoing menopause in other cultures or countries (Japan, Greece, Mexico) have found differences in symptoms and meaning than those commonly reported by women in western industrialized nations [2], [3], [4]. One of the most frequently cited studies looked at Mayan women in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and found that
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