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Joint and muscle pain (musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause)
limited Evidence strength · Status: published · Source agreement: medium
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What the literature reports
The 'musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause' is described (Climacteric 2024) as a cluster of musculoskeletal symptoms — arthralgia, loss of muscle mass, reduced bone density, and osteoarthritis progression — linked to estrogen decline, and estimated to affect roughly 70% of women in the transition. In support of estrogen's role, aromatase inhibitors, which sharply lower estrogen, cause new or worsening joint pain in about half of women who take them.
Citations
- Musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause (Climacteric 2024, PMID 39077777) — Climacteric (2024) · narrative-review
Notes
'Musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause' needs an entities entry (kind: symptom); id not invented. Single review source; the concept is recently named and the prevalence estimate is approximate.
Provenance
This entry is resolved from per-source signals; the raw claims are the audit trail behind it.
- Machine record: /data/sites/musculoskeletal-syndrome-menopause.yml (schema-valid, verbatim)
- Signals:
sig-20260710-msk-definition,sig-20260710-msk-mechanism,sig-20260710-msk-prevalence - First recorded 2026-07-10 · last updated 2026-07-10