問題詳情

Questions 36-40 are based on the following passage.   In the United States, 1.3 million women reach menopause annually. Although most women make thetransition to menopause without experiencing psychiatric problems, an estimated 20% of women havedepression at some point during menopause.   Studies of mood during menopause have generally revealed an increased risk of depression duringperimenopause, yet a decreased risk of depression during postmenopausal years. The Penn Ovarian AgingStudy, a cohort study, found that depressive symptoms increased during the menopausal transition anddecreased after menopause. The strongest predictor of depressive mood was a prior history of depression,along with fluctuations in reproductive hormone levels associated with depressive mood.    In a cross-sectional population survey from the Netherlands, 2103 women were asked to rate theirsymptoms of depression before menopause and 3.5 years later, during the menopausal transition. The result ofthe survey showed that the women experienced most symptoms of depression during the menopausal transition.In the United States, a study of a community sample of women undergoing natural menopause alsodemonstrated an increase in depressive symptoms during perimenopause.    Investigators from the Harvard Study of Moods and Cycles recruited premenopausal women aged 36-44with no history of major depression and followed up these women for 9 years to detect new onsets of majordepression. They found that women who entered perimenopause were twice as likely to have clinicallysignificant depressive symptoms as women who had not yet made the menopausal transition.
36. According to this article, which statement is not true?
(A) Studies have shown that there’s an increased risk of depression during perimenopause.
(B) Studies of mood during menopause have reported an increased risk of insomnia duringperimenopause.
(C) Studies have shown that there’s a decreased risk of depression during postmenopausal years.
(D) Studies have shown that reproductive hormones produced during menopause contribute todepression.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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