The middle-aged women's attitudes towards (anti-ageing) cosmetic services in the Czech Republic.

Life satisfaction is a subjective construct that varies according to gender, education level, age, income, marital status, and other demographic factors. Life satisfaction is an important issue among middle-aged women. They face various responsibilities, roles and expectation at this age. The objective of this article is to identify the differences in life satisfaction among middle-aged Malay women from different educational level, marital status, career and income. This study applied a survey technique, which is a set of questionnaire which consisted of socio-demographic scale and life satisfaction scale (based on Life Satisfaction Index - Short Form by Barrette and Murk, 2006). Simple random sampling and purposive sampling have been used to obtain the responses. A total of 410 middle-aged career women in Hulu Langat, Selangor have participated in this study. The finding showed that life satisfactions among middle-aged women are different depending on their marital status, career and income. This was based on the result of ANOVA. Single women and widower who are working in private sector and of low-income level reported to have the lowest life satisfaction. This finding may provide input to the planning of programs to enhance the well-being and life satisfaction among middle aged career women.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the prevalence of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Korean middle-aged men and women through the use of national health statistics. Methods: This study employed statistical data extracted from the 2016-2017 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and subjects were 3,008 middle-aged men and women, aged 40-65 years. The following variables were included in survey items: marital status, education, current employment status, income, living arrangement, smoking, drinking, sleep duration, chronic disease, depression, and counselling. Data were analysed utilizing a complex sample multiple logistic regression analysis with the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. Results: The prevalence of suicidal ideation was found to be 3.0% in middle-aged men and 5.1% in middle-aged women. Influencing factors of suicidal ideation among middle-aged men included current employment status (OR=0.44, 95% CI=0.20∼0.96) and whether they had received counselling (OR=9.38, 95% CI=2.47∼35.54), while other factors such as high income levels (OR=0.35, 95% CI=0.13∼0.93), upper-middle income levels (OR=0.35, 95% CI=0.16∼0.77), if respondents were drinkers (OR=3.18, 95% CI=1.20∼8.47), and if they had received counselling (OR=8.58, 95% CI=1.79∼41.04) were related to suicidal ideation among middle-aged women. Conclusion: The results of this study show that influencing factors of suicidal ideation in Korean middle-aged men and women are different. Therefore, taking these findings into consideration, it may be helpful to tailor interventions according to gender. In addition, healthcare providers should assess suicidal ideation and provide interventions without discriminating against those who receive mental health counselling, regardless of whether they are men or women.

Analysis of the prevalence and influencing factors of depression in middle-aged women: A nationwide study from CHARLS.

The aim of this article is threefold. First, we seek to elicit the attitudes and practices of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women towards ageing and care for the elderly. Second, we aim to identify possible differences between middle-aged and elderly women's attitudes and practices. Third, we seek to explore which role religion plays in their attitudes and practices. Qualitative empirical research was conducted with a sample of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women living in Antwerp (Belgium) (n=30) and with experts in the field (n=15). Our study unveils that ageing and care for the elderly are clearly understood from a religious framework. More specifically, theological and eschatological considerations take up a central position. Access to and utilization of professional elderly care is hampered by several barriers (e.g. religious, cultural and financial). We found a more open attitude towards professional elderly care among middle-aged women than among elderly women.

Sclerostin and Dickkopf-1 Characteristics According to Age and Physical Activity Levels in Premenopausal Women

This study investigated the effects of user personality traits, usage scenarios, and age on middle-aged and older women using voice assistants. Seventy-two middle-aged and older women (mean age = 57.7 years, SD = 7.6 years) participated in a 2 (user personality: introverted and extraverted, between-subjects) × 2 (user personality traits: emotionally stable and unstable, between-subjects) × 2 (age group: middle-aged and older women, between-subjects) × 2 (usage scenario: entertainment and medical, within-subjects) mixed design experiment. The Wizard of Oz method was used in this study. The study found that introverted and emotionally stable middle-aged women were least likely to self-disclose when interacting with voice assistants. Compared with medical scenarios, participants in entertainment scenarios had higher trust in the ability and integrity of voice assistants and lower mental workload. Middle-aged women had higher trust in ability and integrity, and lower mental workload than older women. Middle-aged and older women were affected differently by user personality traits in self-disclosure and by usage scenarios in acceptance. This study has implications for policymakers, designers, and manufacturers.

This study intended to compare the effects of fashion emotional and relationship experience of middle and old aged women on their long-term relationship orientation. The survey was conducted in September and October in 2006 on 579 middle old aged women whose age varied from 40 to 70 years old, who lived in Seoul and the metropolitan area and had experienced fashion shopping. The SPSS 12.0 was used to do an analysis of frequency, an exploratory factor analysis, and a multi-regression analysis and Lisrel 8.14 was applied to make a path analysis. The result of this study was as follows: Comparing the two age groups, the most important fact was that fashion related experience had more affective on long-term relationship orientation for old aged than middle aged women. Secondly, the effects of fashion emotional experience of middle and old aged women affected the long-term relationship orientation were the same. This analysis suggested that intensive marketing strategy effort of emotional experience for middle aged women and relational experience for old aged women should be more effective in fashion market.

Objectives: It is reported that the depression of women with disabilities is higher than that of men with disabilities and people with disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the depression level and influencing factors of middle-aged women with disabilities. Method: For this study, the 2020 survey on the disabled was used. The subjects were 2,546 middle-aged and disabled women over the age of 40 who responded to the survey. For data analysis, SPSS Window 26.0 program was used. Descriptive analysis, chi-square test, and multiple logistic analysis were performed to identify factors affecting depression in middle-aged women with disabilities. Results: In this study, marital status, subjective economic status, disability type, subjective health status, subjective obesity, chronic disease, exercise, stress and suicidal ideation, and self-going ability variables of middle-aged and elderly women with disabilities were found to be related to depression. Factors affecting the depression of middle-aged women with disabilities were analyzed to be marital status, smoking, stress, and suicidal ideation variables. Conclusion: Stress and suicidal ideation should be reduced to effectively reduce depression and improve depression in middle-aged and elderly women with disabilities. And the development and application of health education and programs that can promote mental health are required.

Sub-Saharan African women face a high burden of breast cancer, influenced by genetic and lifestyle factors. However, the lack of comprehensive, age-stratified data hinders the identification of risk factors and the development of effective, population-specific interventions. This study aimed to assess age-related variations in breast cancer prevalence among Nigerian women, providing insight into associated risk factors and disease trends. A retrospective review of 3,263 breast histopathology records (9.46% of total from 2015 to 2023) was conducted. Lesions-benign and malignant-were analyzed across five age groups: children and adolescents (0-19), young adults (20-39), middle-aged (40-59), higher-aged (60-79), and elderly (≥ 80), using MS Excel and GraphPad Prism 8.0. Statistical comparisons were performed by age and lesion type. Most cases were in young adults (45.97%) and middle-aged women (33.83%). The left breast was more commonly affected (46.86%) and had higher malignancy rates than the right (44.41%) or bilateral lesions (7.20%). Benign lesions were predominant (56.76%), especially among young adults (57.34%). Malignancy incidence increased with age, peaking in middle-aged women (53.30%). Fibroadenoma was the most frequent benign lesion in children and adolescents and young adults, while fibrosis predominated in middle age. Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) was the leading malignant subtype, with a sharp rise by 2023-particularly among middle-aged (172 cases) and young adult women (71 cases). Among 339 immunohistochemically profiled cases, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC; 42.77%) and ER+/PR+ tumors (36.87%) were most common. TNBC was the only subtype detected in children and adolescents. Middle-aged women bore the highest burden of all subtypes, with a marked increase in TNBC and ER+/PR+ cases in 2023. The rising incidence of aggressive subtypes, particularly TNBC, highlights the need for enhanced molecular diagnostics and personalized therapies. Age-specific trends reinforce the urgency for targeted screening, especially for young and middle-aged Nigerian women.

Objective: To understand the prevalence of frailty and the importance of its influencing factors in adult population in Shaanxi Province. Methods: The data were from Shaanxi baseline survey of natural population cohort study in northwest China during 2018-2019. The frailty index (FI) was constructed to evaluate the frailty status of the population, and XGboost model combined with Shapley method was used to analyze the importance of the sociodemographic and life behavior factors affecting the prevalence of frailty by gender and age. Results: A total of 25 079 subjects were included, in whom 964 (3.8%) had frailty, and there was no significant difference in the overall prevalence of frailty between women (3.9%) and men (3.8%) (P=0.629), but there was a gender specific difference in the distribution of FI (P<0.001), and the proportion of the pre-frailty in men was higher than that in women. The prevalence of frailty increased with age (P<0.001), the prevalence of frailty were 1.3%, 2.5% and 7.8% in young, middle-aged and elderly women, respectively, and 1.9%, 2.7% and 5.5% in young, middle-aged and elderly men, respectively. Sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle patterns were both influencing factors for the prevalence of frailty, but their importance varied with gender and age. The top five contributing factors were education level, staying up late, annual family income level, sedentary time and marital status in young women, and staying up late, smoking, annual family income level, sedentary time and drinking in young men. The top five contributing factors were education level, annual family income level, passive exposure to smoking, staying up late, and sedentary time in middle-aged women, and annual family income level, education level, sedentary time, staying up late and drinking in middle-aged men. The top five contributing factors were annual family income level, passive exposure to smoking, sedentary time, marital status, and smartphone use in elderly women, and education level, annual family income level, smoking, smartphone use and sedentary time in elderly men. Conclusions: There are gender specific differences in the distribution of FI in Shaanxi. The prevalence of frailty increased with age, but young and middle-aged people also have frailty risk. The prevalence of frailty in young men was mainly related to unhealthy life behaviors, such as staying up late, smoking, sedentary behavior and drinking, while the prevalence of frailty in middle-aged and elderly men and women were more affected by sociodemographic factors, such as education level, economic status and marital status.

The prevalence and associated factors of depression during pre-, peri-, and post-menopausal period among the middle-aged women of Dhaka city.

Age at menarche is strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk in middle-aged and older adults, but little is known about the relationship between age at menarche and lipid levels and triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index in middle-aged women. This study aimed to examine the relationship between age at menarche and lipid levels and TyG index in middle-aged Chinese women based on nationally representative data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The study sample consisted of 5492 participants aged 45 years or older from CHARLS. The relationship between age at menarche and lipid levels as well as the TyG index was assessed using multiple linear regression and subgroup analyses. Nonlinear associations were examined using spline analysis and visualized. The median age at menarche in the study population was 16.00 years, with median values of 122.124 mg/dL for triglycerides (TG), 51.351 mg/dL for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), 104.633 mg/dL for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and 8.680 for TyG. Multivariate linear regression results indicated that after adjusting for age, education, marital status, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index (BMI), and diabetes status, delaying menarche by 1 year was associated with an increase of 0.316 mg/dL in HDL-C (P = .005), a decrease of 2.900 mg/dL in TG (P = .002), and a decrease of 0.019 units in TyG (P < .001). Spline analysis showed a linear relationship between age at menarche and HDL-C (P = .094), LDL-C (P = .68), TG (P = .377), and TyG index (P = .127). Subgroup analysis revealed that diabetes and marital status moderated the relationship between age at menarche and lipid indices (P for interaction < .05). In middle-aged and elderly women, age at menarche was positively correlated with HDL-C and negatively correlated with TG and TyG index in a linear fashion. Clinical attention should be given to women’s reproductive history and physiological development, such as age at menarche, to assist in the early identification of high-risk metabolic abnormalities.

BackgroundKnowledge about trends in the socioeconomic patterning of overweight and obesity in women provides insights into the nature of the obesity epidemic. Therefore the aim was to assess a ten-year trend (2000–2010) in the prevalence of excessive weight in Balearic Islands’ women and its association with socioeconomic factors.MethodYoung (18–35 year-old) and middle-aged (36–55 year-old) women were selected from two population-based cross-sectional nutritional surveys carried out in the Balearic Islands, Spain. The participation rate was 80 % during 1999–2000 and 92.5 % during 2009–2010. Measured weight and height was obtained, and body mass index (kg/m2) was classified as follows: overweight (25.0 < 30), obese (≥30) and excessive weight (≥25). In both surveys, a general questionnaire including questions relating to socioeconomic status factors was used. Logistic regression was used to examine the association of excessive weight with socioeconomic variables and to test the interaction between the survey period and the socioeconomic factors.ResultsOverall, while the prevalence of obesity mainly remained stable over the study period, the prevalence of overweight increased from 21.0 to 24.8 %. Young women showed an increased prevalence of overweight and excessive weight, from 14.1 to 20.9 % and from 20.9 to 28.6 %, respectively. Significant differences were not found in middle-aged women. Over the whole period, the incidence of excessive weight was higher among middle-aged and foreign women, but lower in women with a high educational profile and in employment. The prevalence of excessive weight in young women was also around 2.5 times higher in women who were living with at least one child at home. The tendency towards excessive weight in employed women decreased significantly between 2000 and 2010 in the younger age group (OR: 0.42; 95 % CI: 0.22–0.82).ConclusionsNo significant increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity was observed in middle-aged women, with a low level of education being the single socioeconomic variable associated with excessive weight in this target group. Overweight/obesity increased in young women with unemployment being the distinguishing socioeconomic factor associated with this increase.

Women's 'inner-balance': a comparison of stressors, personality traits and health problems by age groups The purposes of this descriptive study were to identify differences in women's stressors, personality mediating traits and symptoms of health problems by age groups, and to guide revisions for development of a shorter, reliable questionnaire to measure women's health and risks for stress-related illnesses. A convenience sample of 299 women aged between 18 and 66 years who resided in the south-western United States and could read English completed a lengthy questionnaire. ANOVAs were used to compare women by three age groups. Young women (18-29 years) reported high stressors, less healthy personality traits, and significantly more physical and emotional symptoms of health problems than middle-age and older women. Middle-age women (30-45 years) had significantly more stressors than other women, but their healthy personality traits may have contributed to fewer health problems. Older women (46-66 years) had the fewest stressors, highest healthy personality traits, and fewest symptoms of problems compared to other age groups. In their roles and relationships as wives, mothers and employees, women experienced multiple stressors such as inadequate physical and emotional support from their spouse/partner, along with parenting and employee difficulties that contributed to their health problems. Young and middle-aged women were more stressed, juggling the multiple responsibilities and demands of their spouse, children, ageing parents, and their occupation, while trying to maintain their own 'inner balance'.

Objective:This study aims to compare the prevalence of metabolic syndrome between different age groups of middle-aged and older women and to assess whether these differences are independent of potential covariates.Methods:Study conducted with 510 women divided into three age groups: 45–54, 55–64 and 65–74 years. Socioeconomic, reproductive and lifestyle variables were self-reported. We defined metabolic syndrome using the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III criteria (abdominal obesity, diabetes, reduced high-density lipoprotein, elevated triglycerides, and hypertension). Logistic regression assessed the association between age groups, and metabolic syndrome was adjusted for covariates (socioeconomic variables, age at menarche and at first childbirth, parity, menopausal status, physical activity variables and smoking).Results:Women aged 55–64 years presented higher prevalence of all metabolic syndrome criteria than the other groups, except for abdominal obesity, which was higher in the oldest group. In the fully adjusted analysis, the 55–64 years age group continues to exhibit significantly higher odds of presenting metabolic syndrome when compared to the youngest group (45–54 years) (OR = 2.257; 95% CI = 1.20:4.24). There was no statistical difference in the odds of presenting metabolic syndrome when comparing the oldest and the youngest groups (OR = 1.500; 95% CI = 0.85:2.65).Conclusion:The higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome among those aged 55–64 years may indicate that middle-aged women become unhealthy earlier in the life course and that many of them may die prematurely. This result highlights the importance of screening metabolic syndrome earlier in the midlife and the need for public health policies aimed at reducing adverse effects in later years.