Melatonin in treatment of climacteric symptoms


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During menopausal transition women develop vasomotor and psychosomatic symptoms. These symptoms stem both from estrogen deprivation and hypothalamic-pituitary system ageing. Melatonin is a powerful hormonal adaptogen, working at every level of reproductive system, down to receptor level. To measure its effect on climacteric symptoms, we enrolled 55 women between 45 and 65 y.o. All participants took 3 mg of melatonin - Melaxen (Unipharm, Inc.) for 3 months. During the therapy we observed marked reduction of symptoms from 40.96 to 21.36 (47.92%) on Greene Climacteric Scale and sleep improvement from 16.60±4.03 to 7.33±1.95 on Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Melatonin 3 mg is an effective method of climacteric symptoms therapy.

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I V Kuznetsova

I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

д-р мед. наук, проф., глав. науч. сотр. научно-исследовательского отд. женского здоровья Научно-исследовательского центра ГБОУ ВПО Первый МГМУ им. И.М.Сеченова 119991, Russian Federation, Moscow, ul. Trubetskaia, d. 8, str. 2

D I Burchakov

Endocrinology research center of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Email: dr.burchakov@yandex.ru
врач-эндокринолог, сомнолог ФГБУ ЭНЦ 117036, Russian Federation, Moscow, ul. Dmitria Ul'ianova, d. 11

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