In connection with the increase of women’s life duration, problems of the development of pathologic states during the climacteric period become more relevant. One of such damages, that appear to be the result of the estrogen deficiency, is the uro-genital disorder. Study of the development of this pathology in climacteric aged women with hypofunction of thyroid gland makes a great interest.
We’ve been studying the structure, the degree of intensity, the frequency of appearance of the urogenital disorders in women with hypothyroidism — the main group (n=57) and in women with the normal functional activity of the thyroid gland — I control group (n=59), according to the duration of the postmenopausal period.
The facts let us make the conclusion that there are evident atrophic processes during the 5–10 year postmenopausal period in women with hypothyroidism.