Publication Date
2019-11-06
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Nursing
Document Type
Article Postprint
Disciplines
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism | Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists | Polycyclic Compounds | Psychiatry and Psychology | Psychological Phenomena and Processes | Reproductive and Urinary Physiology | Women's Health
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether estradiol variability, ovulatory levels of progesterone, and VMS burden are independently associated with perimenopausal depressive symptomatology.
DESIGN AND INTERVENTION: Depressive symptoms, serum levels of estradiol and progesterone, and VMS frequency were assessed weekly in an 8-week observational study. Association of mood with estradiol variability, ovulatory levels of progesterone, and VMS frequency were estimated using generalized estimating equation models.
SETTING: Academic medical center.
PATIENTS: Fifty unmedicated perimenopausal women with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms (mean Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale [MADRS] score 15.5 +/- 5.3).
RESULTS: During the study, 90.0% of participants had varying estradiol levels, 51.1% had ovulatory progesterone levels, and 90% had VMS. Greater estradiol variability and absence of progesterone levels consistent with ovulation, but not VMS frequency, are associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms (beta= 0.11, 95% confidence interval [95%CI] [0.04 to 0.18, p=0.001]; beta= -2.62 [95%CI -4.52 to -0.71, p=0.007], respectively), after accounting for higher BMI, lifetime history of depression, and stressful life events.
CONCLUSIONS: Increasing dysregulation of ovarian hormones, but not VMS, associates with more depressive symptom burden during perimenopause. These results suggest that perimenopausal mood instability is driven by the underlying hormonal dysregulation of the menopause transition involving changes in both estradiol and progesterone.
Keywords
depression, estradiol, mood, ovulation, perimenopause, progesterone
Rights and Permissions
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DOI of Published Version
10.1210/clinem/dgz181
Source
Joffe H, de Wit A, Coborn J, Crawford S, Freeman M, Wiley A, Athappilly G, Kim S, Sullivan KA, Cohen LS, Hall JE. Impact of estradiol variability and progesterone on mood in perimenopausal women with depressive symptoms. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Nov 6;dgz181. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgz181. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31693131. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Related Resources
PubMed ID
31693131
Repository Citation
Joffe H, de Wit A, Coborn J, Crawford SL, Freeman M, Wiley A, Athappilly G, Kim S, Sullivan KA, Cohen LS, Hall JE. (2019). Impact of estradiol variability and progesterone on mood in perimenopausal women with depressive symptoms. Graduate School of Nursing Publications. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgz181. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsn_pp/126
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