postmenopausal
adjective
post·men·o·paus·al
ˌpōs(t)-ˌme-nə-ˈpȯ-zəl 
-ˌmē-
1
: having undergone menopause
2
: occurring or administered after menopause
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Protecting Your Heart During Menopause and As You Age
Though questions still remain, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have recognized age at menopause as a risk-modifying factor for cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal people.
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Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 19 Apr. 2025
Study Looked at More Than 100,000 Women For the new study, researchers examined data on about 47,000 postmenopausal women who had used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and roughly 70,000 who had not.
—Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Sep. 2024
Many postmenopausal women take supplements to reduce fractures, but in 2018 the task force found vitamin D combined with calcium had no effect on the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2022
But despite their deliberate and extensive efforts to provide inclusive data, the SWAN scientists recently noticed that some women had still been left out: many postmenopausal people who volunteered for the study—particularly those who were Black and Hispanic—had inadvertently been excluded.
—Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
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Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 19 Apr. 2025
Study Looked at More Than 100,000 Women For the new study, researchers examined data on about 47,000 postmenopausal women who had used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and roughly 70,000 who had not.
—Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Sep. 2024
Many postmenopausal women take supplements to reduce fractures, but in 2018 the task force found vitamin D combined with calcium had no effect on the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2022
But despite their deliberate and extensive efforts to provide inclusive data, the SWAN scientists recently noticed that some women had still been left out: many postmenopausal people who volunteered for the study—particularly those who were Black and Hispanic—had inadvertently been excluded.
—Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
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“Postmenopausal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postmenopausal. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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postmenopausal
adjective
post·meno·paus·al
-ˌmen-ə-ˈpȯ-zəl
1
: having undergone menopause
postmenopausal women
2
: occurring after menopause
postmenopausal osteoporosis
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