Abstract:

Background Metabolic syndrome (MS) is accompanying many factors, one of four adults had metabolic syndrome, but studies showed also up to 60% of postmenopausal women had MS. Method This study was completed in Rİze State Hospital between the period of 2014-2015. All patients fulfill the questionnaire and recorded with the other parameters for metabolic syndrome diagnosis. Results In this study, there were 81 post-menopausal patients, with mean age 57. The mean menopausal age was 47 years. Our hospital had an 8% of C-Section rate. Fifty-five (68%) of patient had natural menopause, 26 of the remaining had surgical menopause. The metabolic syndrome frequency was 36% in the whole study population, they had 20% of diabetes mellitus, and 57% of them had hypertension. Metabolic syndrome was significantly higher in patients who had surgical menopause than natural menopause (42% vs 32%, P=0.001) Conclusion We found surgical menopause patients have a higher frequency of metabolic syndrome than natural menopause. If can we demonstrate the reason of this result, we can advise surgery without ovariectomy in patients who underwent hysterectomy.

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