TY - SER TI - La mujer y la menopausia SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 30 N2 - Overview of the causes and effects of menopause. This work does not intend to analyze in depth the consequent endocrinological changes or other clinical aspects that require medical assistance. But it is obvious that menopause is one of the crucial moments in a woman's life. The changes it causes affect the person who suffers them physically, mentally and emotionally. Sometimes dramatically. Disdained by the medical profession for a long time, and hidden by women, menopause inhabited a limbo from which it is beginning to emerge. Included in the field of endocrinology -there are those who protest, on the other hand, against this abrupt medicalization of a natural phenomenon-, menopause begins to reveal its enigmas ER -