Pain Research and Management (Jan 2008)

Dyspareunia in Postmenopausal Women: A Critical Review

  • Alina Kao,
  • Yitzchak M Binik,
  • Anita Kapuscinski,
  • Samir Khalifé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/269571
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 3
pp. 243 – 254

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Dyspareunia, or pain during sexual intercourse, is among the problems most frequently reported by postmenopausal women. Past literature has almost unanimously attributed dyspareunic pain occurring during or after the menopausal transition to declining estrogen levels and vaginal atrophy.