Climatério

Abstract

The authors discuss about climacteric, defining and charachterizing it. They address the symptomatic picture, and the methods used to quantify it. They comment about how to avail the climacteric women, including investigating some diseases what may occur in the same time. They suggest the exams needed and useful. They discourse about the treatment, detatching the need to avail lifestyle, and the value of diet, exercise and mental hygiene. They mention treatment with medicines, with or witout hormones, and insit inindividualization. © Copyright Moreira Jr. Editora.