Menopause
101
Menopause Resources
Adapted by Tracee Cornforth
For your grandmother or great-grandmother, life expectancy was shorter and reaching menopause did mean that their life was nearing its end. Not so for you because today we are all living longer&emdash;on average, until 78. Make the most of the 20, 30, or more years you have ahead.
For information on menopause contact:
American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
409 12th Street, SW
Box 96920
Washington, DC 20090
202-484-8748
Internet website: http://www.acog.org
North American
Menopause Society
Box 94527
Cleveland, OH 44101
216-844-8748
Internet website: http://www.menopause.org
Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
800-230-PLAN
Internet website: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has information on
heart disease in women:
NHLBI Information Center
Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824
301-592-8573
Internet website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
For materials on
osteoporosis contact:
Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disease National Resource Center
1232 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
800-624-BONE
Internet website: http://www.osteo.org/
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) offers free information on health and aging. For a complete list of publications write:
NIA Information
Center
PO Box 8057
Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8057
Internet website: http://www.nih.gov/nia
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Adapted from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
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