"Women": Keep Healthy during Menopause

World Menopause Day is held every year on the 18th October. Menopause is a natural period of change in which a woman's reproductive ability stops. World Health Organization (WHO) defines menopause as the "permanent termination of menstruation as a result of the loss of ovarian activity". It is associated with the decrease in estrogen secretion that occurs physiologically due to loss of follicular functions. The age of the natural menopause among women in developed countries is between 50 and 52 years whereas, in the less developed countries, it is 3 -4 years less.