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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Penn State Receives NIH Grant To Study Perimenopause ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTPORT, Sep 04 (Reuters) - Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the physiologic changes that take preceding menopause. The University Park researchers, along with researchers from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and Princeton University in New Jersey, "...plan to collect first morning urine samples from approximately 150 women ages 35 to 60 for 6 months of each year during the 5-year project," according to a September 2 press release from Penn State. Dr. Kathleen O'Connor calls the project "daunting," but points out that "...understanding the variations and being able to model these changes could benefit many women." For example, the information could be used to counsel women about hormone replacement therapy, she explains in the press release. Study participants will be selected from women already enrolled in the Tremin Trust, a long-term reproductive study conducted at the University of Minnesota. "Much of what we know about women's reproductive cycles came from the first cohort of the Tremin Trust," Dr. Phyllis Mansfield of the University of Minnesota points out in the press release. "Information on perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause, which is of great interest to women today, will come from the second cohort of this long-term project." Westport Newsroom 203 319 2700 Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. <http://www.reutershealth.com/news/docs/199709/19970904prc.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [log in to unmask]