Lead Sponsor

Ankara City Hospital Bilkent

Age

24 - No limit years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

•Healthy women over 24 years of age who visited our hospital for routine outpatient check-ups, had been diagnosed with menopause, and had no history of psychiatric disorders before menopause.

•Cardiovascular diseases including hypertension
•Type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus
•Morbid obesity
•Primary adrenal insufficiency
•Uterine fibroids
•Thyroid dysfunctions including Hashimoto thyroiditis and Grave's disease
•Hepatic dysfunctions
•Renal insufficiency
•Genetic disorders in chromosome constitution or karyotype analysis including monosomy X, trisomy X and gene mutations as BMP15, FMR I, POFIB, and GDF9
•Neurologic diseases
•Psychiatric disorders
•Autoimmune diseases or syndromes including Addison's disease, autoimmune syndromes, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, myasthenia gravis, inflammatory bowel diseases, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and familial Mediterranean fever
•History of any malignancy
•History of exposure to chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy
•Individuals with a history of chronic or regular medication use that could cause anxiety or depression symptoms
•Individuals with a personal history of psychiatric disorders
•Individuals with a history of depression in the past 6 months.