Includes bibliographical references and index.

The passo fundo cohort study -- Bone mineral density in midlife long term users of hormonal contraception in South Africa -- The midlife women's health study -- Depressed mood during the menopausal transition -- Perceived stress across the midlife -- Chronic vulvar pain in a cohort of postmenopausal women -- Work outcomes in midlife women -- The role of smoking in the relationship between intimate partner violence and age at natural menopause -- Prophylactic salpingo oophorectomy and surgical menopause for inherited risks of cancer -- Unintended pregnancy -- Methods in longitudinal cohort study of late reproductive age women -- Stress and the menopausal transition in Campeche -- Changes in androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, estradiol, and estrone over the menopausal transition -- The Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study -- Is in utero exposure to maternal socioeco. disadvantage related to offspring ovarian reserve in adulthood? -- Anti-Müllerian hormone and its relationship with subclinical cardiovascular disease and renal disease in a longitudinal cohort study of women with type 1 diabetes -- The challenges of midlife women -- Undesirable stressful life events, impact and correlates during midlife -- Neighborhood disorder, exposure to violence, and perceived discrimination in relation to symptoms of midlife women.