Study on Relationship Between Dietary Habit and Menopausal Symptoms of Perimenopausal Women Living in Rural and Urban Areas

Objective To find out peri-menopausal women's dietary structure and the relationship between dietary habit and menopausal symptoms.Methods This cross-sectional study included 297 women aged 45-55 years who were selected randomly from rural areas in Hebei and urban areas in Beijing.Using a structured interview questionnaire to investigate general states,experience of menopausal symptoms and dietary habit.Data were analyzed by using the SPSS.Results More than 50% women take enough meat,cereal,fruit and oil according to daily recommendatony standard but more than 50% women did not take enough vegetable,bean,egg and milk according to daily recommendatony standard.The dietary habit was obviously different between women living in rural and those living urban areas.The prevalence of vasomotor and urogenital atrophic symptoms was lower in those who often eat soybean than in those who did not often eat soybean(P<0.05).The prevalence of vasomotor symptoms was higher in those who often eat meat than in those who did not often eat meat(P<0.05).Conclusion Most peri2menopausal women's diet structure was not rational.There maybe some relationship between diethabit and menopausal symptoms.