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Abstract
This paper re-examines the association between menopause and depression using data
from a study in which 477 women were interviewed 6 times over a 3-year period. Menopause
is examined as one of a series of factors which may increase the risk of depression
for women in middle age, such as children leaving home, the death and illness of family
members, the stresses of daily living, health and the onset of chronic disease. Rather
than hormonal changes, it seems to be her health coupled with the shifts and stresses
of family life in a woman's menopausal years which may trigger her depression.
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