2024-2025 NAMS MENOPAUSE CERTIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Climacteric phase The period of endrocrinologic, somatic, and transitory psychologic changes that occur around the time of menopause. Early menopause LMP before age 45 Late menopause LMP after age 54 Primary ovarian insufficiency Menopause that occurs before age 40 Early menopause transition (stage -2) Persistent difference of 7 days or more in the length of consecutive cycles. Late menopause transition (stage -1) 60 or more consecutive days of amenorrhea Luteal out of phase event (LOOP) Explains why some perimenopausal women have elevated estrogen level sometimes...In the early menopause transition, elevated FSH levels are adequate to recruit a second follicle which results in a follicular phase-like rise in estradiol secretion superimposed on the mid-to-late luteal phase of the ongoing ovulatory cycle. Obese women and estradiol levels during menopause